Record petrol prices thanks to Labour's Krazy Keynesian Policies

Graham_Devon

carolt wrote: »

Apologies if posted already, but it was too good to miss.

On this very subject, one of their best ever:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/hellish-journey-to-job-you-despise-to-cost-more-money-than-ever-201003162560/

The inflation one is pretty good too, but don't think I will post it here!

StevieJ

chucky wrote: »

stocked up more again at just under 1750 a month or so ago - could have waited and got cheaper. happy days that they've moved up again today :T

why hasn't anyone mentioned peak oil yet? :eek:

That good news just keeps flooding in :beer: Not reflected in the Share price though not sure why.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSA) says it has made a significant discovery of oil 25,000 feet below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.economy-news.co.uk/royal-dutch-shell-19201003.html

moggylover

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

Because they haven't worked out how to pretend it is the fault of the government yet.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moggylover

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I bl00dy love my car and if any stinking pinko commie tree loving communist New-Labour SCUM BALL attempts to stop me driving it I will officially freak out.

And I am not joking. Its fricking ridiculous what we pay for petrol while those ar£se janglers claim to have their moats cleaned.

Erm, not sure how to tell you this but Douglas Hogg is a Tory, so not sure what that has to do with "stinking pinko commie tree loving communist New-Labour SCUM BALLs": unless you are trying to tell us he is an under-cover operative:eek::eek::eek::eek:

moggylover

Cleaver wrote: »

Is there not a small bit of you, and just a small bit, that is open to the possibility that humans will come up with an alternative energy source within the next couple of decades? Or find a massive load of coal somewhere? Or just do something? Like they always have done? I'm quite happy to concede that us all perishing is one option, but it's just one option. Everything seems impossible now, because we can't imagine or comprehend new technology or inventions.

I might have shared this thought on here before, but please induldge me...

Imagine you are one of the board of directors at EMI in the late 60s or early 70s. A man from the future desends on one of your board meetings.

"Right folks, I hate to be the barer of bad tidings, but vinyl is on the way out."
"What? When?"
"Within 20 years you need to have invented a digital format. Basically, I need you all to have invented laser technology so that music can be played from a clear plastic disc, via a laser."
"But.... but... we can't do that. How are we meant to do that?"
"You'll have to find a way. But wait, there's more. In 30 to 40 years that technology will be obsolete."
"What, the laser stuff?!"
"Yes, the laser stuff. By 2010 you'll have needed to invent a matchbox size device that holds 50,000 songs on it."
"Wha.... 50,000 songs?! That's impossible!"
"'Fraid you're going to have to come up with it. Oh, and when people are sitting on the bus with this device, you're going to have to make it work so that if they want a song, they just click a button and the song somehow moves through the air, straight on to the device and they can listen to it within a couple of minutes."
"Riiiiigggghhtt...."
"Oh, and lastly this device needs to cost less in 2010 than a record player costs now. Right chaps, get on with the work, you've got about 30 years, the clock is ticking! And whilst you're at it, have a go at making a phone that works with no wires, TV programmes that comes from a satellite in space, a system that means someone in an office in New York can amend a document that is in London and also work out how the solar system was created. That's all got to be done in the next 30 years too. Chop chop."

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Everything looks impossible without the benefit of hindsight. I can watch p*rn on my mobile phone for christsakes, I'm sure someone can some up with some wind-hydro-solar-nucleo battery or something in the next 20 years.[/

Surely you don't:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Thrugelmir

StevieJ wrote: »

Anyone care to explain this one to me

Though BP's profits fell by 45 per cent last year, on the back of crude oil price falls, it still managed to record a pre-tax profit of £8.75 billion.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/petrol-to-hit-120p-a-litre-as-motorists-mugged-by-oil-companies-tele-164275885dfc.html?x=0

Maybe something to do with the fact that BP is the largest domestic oil producer in the USA.

The "B" has more to do with a bygone age. probably why some years ago they went through an enormously expensive rebranding exercise.

StevieJ

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Maybe something to do with the fact that BP is the largest domestic oil producer in the USA.

The "B" has more to do with a bygone age. probably why some years ago they went through an enormously expensive rebranding exercise.

But how does a 45% fall in profit morph into a record profit?

Cleaver

Cleaver wrote: »

Is there not a small bit of you, and just a small bit, that is open to the possibility that humans will come up with an alternative energy source within the next couple of decades? Or find a massive load of coal somewhere? Or just do something? Like they always have done? I'm quite happy to concede that us all perishing is one option, but it's just one option. Everything seems impossible now, because we can't imagine or comprehend new technology or inventions.

I always find it a bit of a shame that the Hammersmashedfaces and Amcluesents of this world never engage with this type of question. Guess it's easier to just decide that there is only one possibility and not really deviate from that line of thought.

Thrugelmir

StevieJ wrote: »

But how does a 45% fall in profit morph into a record profit?

My thought is that it should have been edited as "a 45% fall from 2008's record profits".