Any fool can buy cheap petrol, (we laugh at people in the UAE who pay £9.00 for 11 gallons of petrol, it's so last year, we could do that once, but we've moved on). It now takes a very special fool to pay these kind of prices; the pump you see here was my bill on Friday evening after I filled up my car from the orange light to full, although I have had it just over £55 for a really full tank in the past. Diesel is around £1.17p a litre and the super go fast stuff is a penny less; there's talk that they will be going up again soon, which is comforting to know, so as you can see the £5.00 a gallon is with us and probably here to stay; coupled with sky high train fares and every utility company and council hiking up their prices its not cheap leaving in the UK. My very first gallon of petrol cost the equevelent of £0.225p (4 shillings and six pence in old money), OK it was in 1966.
A recent survey (Daily Mail) mentions that if you want a decent pay rise then just emigrate: it went on to say that the biggest winners were those living in the UAE and stated that quality of life was better, coupled with a lower cost of living and less stressful living being the three main reasons; an astonishing 99 per cent said they had made a good decision to emigrate (not just to the UAE) – it went on to say that over 90 per cent said they were happier, 80 per cent had a greater sense of well being, and the same number said their decision to move as excellent with all surveyed, the majority, more than 60 per cent, said they had no reason to return to the UK; and who can blame them!
Todays headlines: Saturday 29th March 2008, Drink driving. One gass of wine or a single pint of beer to put you over the limit, the proposed new limit (down from 80mg) will be 50mg alcohol per 100ml of blood - this is confusing and unfair, and would, in some way just be revenue making and not a deterient as it should be; a total zero ban which would compleately take away any doubt and drive the point home is the only way forward, after all there is a total ban on smoking in public places so why not a zero tollerence on drink driving. Its a no brainer Gordon. (or Gormless Gordon as the press now call him)
Petts Wood News: The driver (a woman aged 71) of a car that killed a pedestrian on Thursday evening at the (Threshers) roundabout near Crofton school, evidently shot over the roundabout at speed narrowly missing one car but hitting a second then mounted the pavement killing a young guy in his early 50’s who was on his way back from work having left early because he did not feel too well died at the scene, he was married with children.
And you must have heard about the fiasco at the opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow; roll on the Olympics: The Underground is at bursting point, you cant afford to drive, save me a camel I'm coming out.
