Petrol prices on the rise again

RenovationMan

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Thanks wotsthat. Instead of driving to work and back, I'll just adapt, and drive one way only.

Life is rosy again. Cheers bud.

I thought you worked irregular hours and dialled in after people had finished work in order to 'run processes'.

Now it seems that you have a (long) regular daily commute to work. I can't keep up with the changes in your back story.

However, in case this version is true....

Why can't you adapt and live closer to work? I've moved house a couple of times in order to be closer to where I was working or with the last move, to be close to a railway lines and local shops.

It's not rocket science. I swear you bought half a house 20 miles further away from work just so you could have 20 more miles worth of moans. Are you incapable of sorting yourself out?

wotsthat

RenovationMan wrote: »

It's not rocket science. I swear you bought half a house 20 miles further away from work just so you could have 20 more miles worth of moans. Are you incapable of sorting yourself out?

You'd think that as this is a moneysaving site it would attract, at least on some levels, people who were at least united by moneysaving if nothing else.

Maybe it is rocket science and really really difficult.

RenovationMan

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Wouldn't say that.

It's what I can do about it that counts. No point suggesting I'm gonna do A, B and C, if I can't.

Working from home - Do this already when I can, am today, though will be driving to a site later. Running a very long report at the moment, so can't really say it's "working".

Moving closer to work - the properties are more expensive, as is the case around most working areas.

Get another job closer to home - Sure, could do this, not sure it would be worth it for the fuel savings alone....the job has so many other factors, like the freedom of working from home and being my own boss.

Buy a more fuel efficient car - Could do, but theres a large cost involved in that, a cost which would take 10's of tanks of fuel to break even on.

So no, it's not that things are impossible, it' rather how they effect other things. If we could all just move closer to work....lovely, so many issues solved for so many families throughout the country. So why don't a good proportion of the country simply do this?

Nothing is ever straighforward with you is it Graham? You can never just solve your problems like everyone else.

God knows how people with kids in schools manage to cope with house moves or how anyone gets another job or buys a more fuel efficient car if they had the same attitude.

I get the feeling that even going to the toilet would have a period of deliberation and angst filled reflection.

chewmylegoff

RenovationMan wrote: »

I thought you worked irregular hours and dialled in after people had finished work in order to 'run processes'.

Now it seems that you have a (long) regular daily commute to work. I can't keep up with the changes in your back story.

However, in case this version is true....

Why can't you adapt and live closer to work? I've moved house a couple of times in order to be closer to where I was working or with the last move, to be close to a railway lines and local shops.

It's not rocket science. I swear you bought half a house 20 miles further away from work just so you could have 20 more miles worth of moans. Are you incapable of sorting yourself out?

graham has simply chosen to live some distance from where he works because the property prices are lower there, but the downside of this is that he has an expensive commute. pretty much everyone with a job has to make similar decisions - save money on housing, spend more on commuting or vice-versa.

in such a situation you are of course at the mercy of the cost of commuting changing. and that's the end of the story.

wotsthat

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Can if you like, so long as you don't have a fit when I put a slight obstacle in front of your tints. Who says I'm not happy anyway? You have introduced "me not being happy" yourself.

Don't know if any of these might help - somehow doubt it.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/car-check

RenovationMan

chewmylegoff wrote: »

graham has simply chosen to live some distance from where he works because the property prices are lower there, but the downside of this is that he has an expensive commute. pretty much everyone with a job has to make similar decisions - save money on housing, spend more on commuting or vice-versa.

in such a situation you are of course at the mercy of the cost of commuting changing. and that's the end of the story.

I agree* and once the choice is made, you have to live with the decision. The point is that everytime we have a movement in the petrol price, or indeed an increase in anything that Graham buys, we see a new thread created and an outpouring of grief and vitriol in equal measure from him.

I really do get the impression that, for Graham, making any decision is a stressful and difficult procedure and that all decisions are then scrutinised and raked over again and again, like a child picking at a scab.

All of us have had to make compromises and sacrifices with our home locations, jobs, kids schools, etc. etc. but we made those decisions freely and we live with them, we don't moan about our lot day in and day out on the internet. I have to say that if something about my life did bother me as much as Graham's entire life bothers him, instead of moaning about it I'd get it sorted and I wouldn't keep making up excuses as to why I can't change it. Where there is a will there is a way!

* As long as we are in the world that Graham lives where house prices are uniformally expensive moving outward from the epicenter of his office. There are no smaller houses available, no house shares and no pockets of areas where houses are cheaper than others. Not in Graham's world.

ruggedtoast

I think you could probably argue that not only are petrol prices not coming down any time soon in Europe, but in all probability we are artificially subsidising cheap petrol prices in the US. The US being a more important market for the oil barons than Europe, for a number of political and economic reasons.

Graham_Devon

RenovationMan wrote: »

I agree* and once the choice is made, you have to live with the decision. The point is that everytime we have a movement in the petrol price, or indeed an increase in anything that Graham buys, we see a new thread created and an outpouring of grief and vitriol in equal measure from him.

I really do get the impression that, for Graham, making any decision is a stressful and difficult procedure and that all decisions are then scrutinised and raked over again and again, like a child picking at a scab..

!!!!!! are you on about?

What decision am I making?

All I said is the fuel price at the pumps is going up for pities sake.

Get a grip of yerself lad. Get a hobby. Something! Anything instead of continually making stuff up time after time after time.

RenovationMan

Graham_Devon wrote: »

RenovationMan wrote: »

The point is that everytime we have a movement in the petrol price, or indeed an increase in anything that Graham buys, we see a new thread created and an outpouring of grief and vitriol in equal measure from him.

!!!!!! are you on about?

All I said is the fuel price at the pumps is going up for pities sake.

Get a grip of yerself lad. Get a hobby. Something! Anything instead of continually making stuff up time after time after time.

Yes, I'm continually making stuff up all the time after time after time. Or perhaps it's a different Graham_Devon who constantly posts a new thread every time we have movement in the petrol price....

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Graham_Devon

Oh my lordie. You've even edited my response and then decided to quote your own edit!!

I really am lost for words as to how pathetic you have become with all of this!

Are you seriously trying to prove you don't make things up, but making up what you have quoted and pretending that's what I was responding to? I mean, seriously!?