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That's the same price (without VAT) as a 22 plate Id Buzz panel van at our local VW commercial dealer, virtually the same battery capacity but a bit fugly but realistically a lot better value than a 25 plate Buzz... sadly our 67 plate camper will soldier on a bit longer. :geek:
 
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My eyes are still bleeding from when I first saw that thing ...
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Busfest back in 2022...
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They had come all the way from Germany too.
There was a lady had got a full poptop camper conversion just across from T6 club camping at Busfest last September but I've got to admit there wasn't a lot of room inside the Buzz but her conversion and the fancier one in the Show and Shine tent were properly sorted.
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Fuel cant be that expensive, what with the number of locals still driving their fat brats 400 metres to school, or to the corner shop 2 streets away. Must be dirt cheap if folk are still frittering it away on journeys they could probably walk in the same time it took them to drive and park.
 
BREAKING NEWS ....

Petrol Retailers storm out of meeting with Milliband and Reeves over inflammatory language coming from Milliband and others......

You could not write this sh1t
 
Sasquatch said:
Fuel cant be that expensive, what with the number of locals still driving their fat brats 400 metres to school, or to the corner shop 2 streets away. Must be dirt cheap if folk are still frittering it away on journeys they could probably walk in the same time it took them to drive and park.
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This is the thing - no matter how much fuel costs there are still people that drive literally everywhere.
All four of the neighbours in my terrace do it- drive to the shops (maybe half a mile tops), drive the daughter to piano lessons 0.6 miles away and even drive the dog to the park 0.7 miles away for a walk, drive the kids to school - an entire mile away.

I was once walking our pooch to said park, left the house the same time and got their the same time they entered the car park.
Meanwhile the comments section of the local rag is full of people moaning driving is a human right (when an article on roadworks or cycle lanes pops up). Ironically also the people who rant about human rights being a thing!
 
Coming back from Wickes earlier and saw what looked like a mixed doubles synchronized three point turn flash mob event or a report of an incoming drone attack with a handful of cars effectively blocking the road outside the Sainsbury's filling station as they struggled to perform such a difficult multi vehicle manoeuvre.
If as now appears the petrol retailers have also stormed out of a meeting with their compliance officers it could well be that WW3 has started and my phones spam filter has archived the warning.
I'll look in a while, either way I'm glad we're not away in the camper for another 3 weeks as that will give fuel prices time to return to normal, time to gather spent frying oil, siphon diesel or last resort cancel the three nights at Dawlish Warren. 🤕
OT and in another thread, does anyone know how to remove the odour of 5 bags of Wickes supplied Levingtons Famyard Manure?
Literally drove the nearly 50 metres to Wickes (past Sainsbury's) and back and it smells like somebody took a big old dump in the back. :thumbsup:
 
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On retailers pulling out, the main concern seems to be down to what members of the public are saying/might say.
I guess these members of the public already felt ripped off because every single time anything happens that one could link to oil prices they immediately start price gouging. And the price rarely goes back down all the way after they slowly drop it.

Basically they are saying ‘we don’t want to be held to account so we’re not listening’.

If they won’t talk I guess one option is a windfall tax but they might just pass that onto us anyway. Meanwhile ‘big oil’ can still find hundreds of millions to spend on lobbying.

Here’s what they said…

The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said it has withdrawn from a meeting with chancellor Rachel Reeves in Downing Street today over “concerns that inflammatory language by government ministers was leading to incidents of retail staff being abused by members of the public”.
 
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The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said it has withdrawn from a meeting with chancellor Rachel Reeves in Downing Street today over “concerns that inflammatory language by government ministers was leading to incidents of retail staff being abused by members of the public”.
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Surelynthe meeting was their chance to correct the government, and an opportunity to stop this happening to their staff? Now they sound like they're talking bollocks and look as guilty as hell.
 
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Ooh, apparently the fuel retailers have changed their minds and will meet with Rachel Thieves.
 
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