petrol

Some good news. Home heating oil and petrol prices are coming down…

Brian O'Neill on September 17, 2022, 11:26 am

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Back at the start of August, home heating oil was £399 for 500 litres. It is always a dilemma to know when to buy oil, so I decided to wait and see if the price dropped any further. Instead, the opposite happened, and prices shot up to £545 for 500 litres, and I have been kicking myself ever since. But at last some good news, prices are coming down again. Here is the price per litre chart for the past …

Now is the winter of our discontent…

Brian O'Neill on September 24, 2021, 11:29 am

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Wow, things are looking bleak for poor old Blighty. Energy prices through the roof, bins not being emptied, food shortages, petrol shortages, staff shortages, [insert just about everything] shortages. Unsurprisingly when you tell people not to panic-buy they automatically go out and panic buy. Personally, I have taken matters into my own hands and I have 1000 litres of petrol stored in old plastic milk jugs in the shed. They are next to the pile of illegal fireworks I picked …