The £100 " Fill it up" petrol cost is now with us.

Farcical, what i don't understand is that i read we only get 5% from Russia so why has price shot up so much?

On the sky news app Asda increase fuel by biggest daily price rise in 17 years up 5p a litre with all other supermarkets tp follow.

The cost of fuel has increased sharply because the price for crude oil, which is used to make petrol and diesel, has gone up.

Crude oil was cheaper at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, because many businesses temporarily closed and demand for energy collapsed.

As life returned to normal, the demand for energy increased. But suppliers have struggled to keep up and prices have risen.

Another problem is that the oil used to make petrol is paid for in US dollars. The pound is weak against the dollar at the moment, which makes fuel even more expensive.

I wonder how much more money is this government making in duty from fuel and energy, maybe it's the Governments get our money back time what they paid out because of covid.

What makes no sense is other countries not too far away appear to be getting it cheap and discounted what does Bozo or Sunak do **** all price of a pint will soon be a tenner a loaf of bread a fiver something clearly has gone wrong this lot have lost touch.

If Labour had somebody better than Starmer and Rayner they would be an absolute shoo in.

Anyone advocating lockdown is now beginning to pay the price that they pretending wasn't inevitable. The problem of course is that people who always knew it was deranged are also paying the price.

It looks they are saying that the opposition have been unelectable, which would lead to them being out of power for 12 years.

But the reality of politics is that the Tories only had a workable majority since December 19, then of course covid for the next two years.

They have largely wasted their powerful majority, but that's another subject.

It was Corbyn who was unelectable but thankfully he is gone now.

I'm personally concerned about what the elected government can achieve now, rather than an election way in the future. If they fix the first bit, the second bit will naturally follow.

The worst outcome possible is a coalition and krankie's price will be another reffy. They wouldn't win the reffy in my view but of course it would be hugely divisive whatever the outcome.

I was quite sure that was what you were meaning slippy but the majority of the electorate appear to think think otherwise.

This is interesting >> It’s important to remember that the UK doesn’t actually own its gas supplies – rather, privately owned corporations such as British Gas control the gas and are allowed to export it to whomever they please.

This has happened for many years now, but it was the exports in 2021 that caused some controversy. In 2021, it was revealed in government statistics that the UK had exported 31,975 gigawatt hours’ worth of gas to Belgium and the Netherlands.

In light of the ongoing energy crisis, this exporting came as a surprise to many, especially when compared to figures from 2018 and 2019 (16,439 and 19,633 GWh, respectively). Many argued that the exports were a slap in the face to households already struggling to pay for skyrocketing energy prices while also anticipating the energy price cap rise coming into effect April 1st.

A single gigawatt hour (or, one million kilowatt hours) is enough to power roughly one million UK households for an hour.

Other than Tony Blair no Labour Party leader as won a General Election since 1974...48 years !!!!

I doubt whether Labour would win outright but so long as the SNP dominate Scottish elections, they are guaranteed to have the offer of another 40+ votes in return for a second referendum. The problem for Labour is that should that vote result in independence for Scotland, they will lose that support again. There is no way that English rural seats will vote Labour. If they don't vote Tory they vote Lib Dem.

£122.20 to fill my Macan last night.

Hi Slippy, hope all's well with you too.

I knew it was expensive to run prior to buying it but it's a car you want to get out and drive so I find myself doing more miles than is sensible in the current climate. One day I'll learn!

Hello Sageform, hope you're keeping well too.

Ideally I would have bought a Mercedes EQC but they're so flipping expensive (as are all decent electric cars) that I thought I'd drive the Macan for a couple of years and take a view on the Merc's prices at that point. Am not expecting them to drop much though.

Supply and demand is still alive (just) so if more people buy electric, drive less miles, buy smaller cars etc. etc. the price will come down. What we all need to remember though is that the culprit is Mr Putin with help from OPEC.