Well, it's getting to that point again. Time for a rant.
Last night I stuck £20 of V-Power in the car. It's currently at 102.9p for me at the local Shell, which is one of the cheapest in Brum. I believe the normal unleaded was 96.9 or something similar. Not too sure as I don't pay attention to the price of normal unleaded anymore.
But I was chatting to the security guard and he told me it was going up last night to 105.9p
So I asked the manager in the petrol station and she had a list of the prices which were indeed going up that night.
Now, the thing that pisses me off, is that nobody moans until normal unleaded gets to about the £1 mark. I have to put up with these stupid prices for V-Power as I can't put normal unleaded in unless I want my engine to blow up.
Yes, yes, I know it's my own fault for buying an import blah blah blah. But that's besides the point. The fact is that petrol prices are going up again to ridiculous amounts, and yet nobody has complained, because normal unleaded isn't at the £1 price that people despise so much. The petrol companies will get a couple of weeks of higher prices until there is outrage, by which time they've made an absolute fortune on top of their already staggering profit margins. And only then will they reduce it.
But has nobody else noticed that when they reduce it, they don't put it back to what it was. They put it to 1p or 2p higher, yet people are happy because it's lower than what it was at it's peak. They'll blame crisis in the middle east as the cause for higher prices, and the cost of barrells of oil etc, but it's getting to be an absolute joke.
And the government aren't blameless. Of course the tax on our petrol is stupidly high and has been for some while. Why has nothing been done about this?
I'm sick of it. The fun of driving is being taken away for car enthusiasts. It's going to be too expensive to drive to work soon enough, and guess what - that's what the plan is. Well bollocks. I'm going to make sure I can afford to run my de-catted, high performance, petrol guzzling, over fuelling, ozone hating car for as long as I possibly can.
I'm sick of cold summers anyway! So bring on global warming! I want to see natural palm tree's growing in Weston Super Mare. I want to see bush fires because it's so hot. I want hose pipe bans.
So stick that in your petrol price rises! How long before one of those petition things gets going round the car forums again?
Sorry for the essay. Just pissed off with it all.
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And yesh there is petrol stations closer to my house but they are... over £1 a litre at the mo! i drive a blumming small grannies car 
and i cant afford to run it so i can imagine what tis like for you lot 
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