@RusGarbageHuman £1 in 2008 would be £1.65 today, even using the government's crooked inflation figures.
Fuel isn't particularly expensive in real terms, growth has been flatlining and the currency is trash.
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⛽️Diesel close to hitting £2 a litre (~$10/gallon) at motorway stations right now. Petrol is right behind.
I passed multiple services at £1.98.
Remember the national outrage when it first hit £1 in 2008? This is DOUBLE.
And that’s only the visible part.
🪔Heating oil is through the roof for 1.5 million UK households.
🔥Gas & LPG have spiked 20p+ across rural areas, impacting non gas main communities.
Travelling is becoming unsustainably expensive at this rate. Reminder that 60% of your fuel cost is tax and government charges.
The country that started this war and the chaos in fuel markets is the same one calling to flood Europe with mass 3rd-world migration too.
Is this a deliberate plan to break 🇬🇧Britain and 🇪🇺Europe?
Callum@AkkadSecretary
In Thailand fuel is being rationed Australia is fucked Europe is ~$11 a gallon Meanwhile in Florida its $3.9 or £0.77 a liter. Americans simply are not feeling the real effects of this war, most you get is a grumble about price whilst the rest of the world dies.
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This reminds me of one of my favourite charts of all time, from a Motability self-promotional piece
bernoulli_defect@BernoulliDefect
Another example: 93% of the cars bought by the government subsidised Motability scheme are manufactured outside of the UK What this means is that we’ve spent a Crossrail amount of money (£16B over a decade!) on juicing demand for foreign manufacturing (automation heavy, high tech) and domestic low productivity growth industries like car dealerships, vehicle maintenance (low automation, low value), and insurance. If the £~3.5B/year spigot of government money going to Motabilty was turned off, all of the jobs in dealerships and insurance it ‘created’ would fade, and its car fleet would age and depreciate. Despite spending a biblical amount of cash, I doubt any sustainable industries have been created, and it’s long term impact pales in comparison to other spending options that will exist in decades to come, like Crossrail or Manchester’s tram network.
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@2hT4you @Real_SinaptiX @StealthQE4 The US market is incredibly fragmented due to refinery and pipeline constraints.
There can be an ocean of oil in Texas, but they still import refined product on tankers in the west coast.
Different grades of crude are imported because refineries are limited in what they accept.
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@LampLighterBot @Real_SinaptiX @StealthQE4 Nope, we produce oil in the us too, about 800 percent more than other countries
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Gonna start seeing these kind of videos globally in a few weeks.
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@Real_SinaptiX @StealthQE4 Nope, California imports refined products from overseas.
The US is by no means an autarky, it's a complex supply chain and there isn't enough in land pipeline capacity.
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@StealthQE4 Don't panic, but if you do, ensure that you panic first.
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@PolemicTMM That's just another way of saying "you're all going to be poorer" and people don't have the bargaining power to demand higher wages to offset higher prices.
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@ClimateWarrior7 You just need to play your "right side of history" card and they will instantly let you off.
It's obviously vital to have an unaccountable authoritarian police state that monitors every utterance for Wrong Think but they do occasionally make mistakes and drag in the Good People.
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I for one never anticipated that, when we implemented harsh crackdowns on speech, the police would end up coming for US!
Jvnior@Jvnior
🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR ANTI-ISRAEL TWEETS ON X Dr. Rahma Adwan (@doctor_rahmeh) was ARRESTED today by London MET Police for the 5th time. They sent 7 officers to detain her for criticizing Israel and jewish crimes on X. Please repost this. Make this viral.
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@ClimateWarrior7 @machpodfann He's the Secretary of State for Health now you know.
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@machpodfann I give him 5/10. I think my jokes didn't go down too well.
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This is a clear case of massive tranphobic. This trans man was brutalised simply because they were demonically possessed. Can happen to the best of us.
Billboard Chris 🌎@BillboardChris
Trans-identified female lawyer berates judge, pulls trans card, gets found in contempt, resists arrest, screams “I can’t breathe,” and yells for people to call 911 as she’s fighting police. Absolutely glorious performance. Women should not take testosterone.
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@ClimateWarrior7 She passes brilliantly, the officer's handled them like they were dealing with a black man.
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@John_Stepek @RollingHedge The price of bottled water is determined by private companies and traded globally.
The fact you're suffering a drought is totally unrelated to us blowing up the dam 10 miles away and filling the pipes with concrete.
Besides, rebuilding the dam will take a long time, why bother.
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@AscendedYield The British government itself is a national security threat to its own country. 🤷♂️
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Go all in on net zero and then realise everything is made in China
Financial Times@FT
UK says Chinese wind turbine maker poses national security threat ft.trib.al/c3NetVO
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@ClimateWarrior7 Her and Suzy Izzard's random musings on any given subject totally trumps detailed policy papers that have been drawn up by so called experts with decades of experience.
Always trust the feels, not the reals.
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What I love about celebs is they have really no filter. They never start nitpicking and asking themselves "Is this true?" or "Are the sources of this reliable?"
They just get straight in there denouncing or promoting or whatever.
Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚@hippyygoat
LOVED HER MUSIC AND LOVE HER HUMANITY❤️ Annie Lennox… We are all being driven MAD with this cruelty! Thank you for being a voice of decency and compassion.
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@AlejandroEV66 @graeme_cobb It would be like everyone in the UK only having Lidl chargers to choose from. 😅
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If you want to understand why Japan’s auto industry is so far behind on EV adoption:
The average charger in Japan is still 50 kW CHAdeMO and billed by the minute 💀
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@BonkersBexley @Jordan_W_Taylor @FUDdaily Pyestock was a sight to behold, like wandering around the ruins of a lost civilisation after it was abandoned.
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Three spool engines were discussed and sketched by my father and his scientist friend, both from the National Gas Turbine Estabisment, at our dining room table in the 1950s. I eaves dropped as a fascinated teenager.
Both worked with (not for) RR and later both heavily involved with the Olympus and Concorde.
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The Rolls-Royce RB211 was a perfect athlete. A 70s technological marvel, this is the jet that almost broke Rolls-Royce, driving it to near bankruptcy. A broad menu of technological firsts were attempted in this program, including carbon-fibre fan blades (which Rolls-Royce subsequently backed away from). The RB211's design legacy was the fabulously successful Trent family of engines that has made RR the aerospace colossus it is today.
Not bad for a half-century bet!
But the biggest hidden design legacy of RB211's ambition is the addition of a 3rd spool inside the engine: A shaft inside a shaft inside a shaft, each powered by, and powering, a different part of the turbofan. The design & manufacturing difficulties of this architecture, still unique to Rolls-Royce, were legion, but it paid off: Not only does a third shaft allow you to run the big fan from its own dedicated low-speed, low-pressure turbine stages, but it also adds impressive modularity to the engine design. This allowed RR to scale-up and optimize the Trent family for new airliners with impressive agility, which in turn let them successfully slug it out with their far larger American competitor, General Electric.
Modularity matters.
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@ClimateWarrior7 She may not know what thunder is, but she's as sure as hell that Erika Kirk is somehow causing it.
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Thunder can result from intra-cloud lightning. She's not totally wrong here. Next people will be trying to claim Brigitte Macron is a woman.
Candace Owens Trying to Read (Parody)@candaceReading1
Candace and her producer Savanna learn what thunder is (June 2024)
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@LampLighterBot South of Italy is basically already done.
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This is terrible! I am trying to subvert American politics and if possible overthrow the entire capitalist system and turn America into a communist shithole.
The rest of my audience is British people who follow me accidentally.
What am I suppose to do? I live in Italy.
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@stevepennick @LoftusSteve You're assuming gas can be globally traded in a frictionless fashion, in reality it's stranded in regional markets and LNG is marginal supply.
Imagine finding a new local milk supply without the ability to chill and bottle it for global export.
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@LampLighterBot @LoftusSteve The global price for milk affects prices in the UK far more than the volume of milk produced domestically.
The same is true of gas and oil.
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The whole thing is undermined by you thinking there's a global price for gas.
Tara Singh@RenewableUKCEO
Why wind power isn't “woke”, my piece in today's @spectator. The North Sea matters but won’t cut bills - we pay the global price for gas. Fracking is unpopular and wouldn’t change that. SMRs are promising but distant. Wind is the practical, affordable option to build right now. spectator.com/article/wind-p…
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@stevepennick @LoftusSteve It doesn't matter how it's traded, the molecules are still stranded in Northern Europe and you get local pricing given enough supply.
It's like deliberately rationing milk production then saying the price is set globally by private farmers when retail prices inflate.
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@LoftusSteve The UK buys LNG on the global spot market. Between 15-20%.
The UK government doesn't own our North Sea gas. It's traded by private companies in the open market to the highest bidder.
Both Norway and Britain tax our energy at a far higher rate than the US.
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@GarethDennis @lfg_uk The fruits of deindustrialisation and a deracinated skills base just keep giving.
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@LampLighterBot @lfg_uk only one was built with homegrown skills and knowledge under a well informed, strategically capable and publicly owned client
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The UK could be facing fuel shortages in weeks.
So, what's been going on with our own energy?
Hinkley Point C was initially meant to cost £18 billion.
Now, it's set to cost £48 billion.
Why have we made it this expensive?
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