Gas shortage UK

[Commander Kinsey]

Big girl's blouse.

Same here until half way through when they got a climbing frame. But we found stuff to climb on and vandalise and sneak into.

[Commander Kinsey]

Odd, I thought the UK government taxed diesel more due to pollution concerns.

Here it's £1.60/litre petrol, £1.70 a litre diesel. = $7.14/US gallon petrol, £7.59/US gallon diesel.

So what are you moaning about? Your fuel is as cheap as water!

[Frank]

I knew your prices and much higher taxes.

Large price difference here may be to lower diesel usage.

I am not looking forward to winter as I heat with oil which is essentially diesel.

[Max Demian]

When unleaded petrol came in they subsidised it so it was the same price as leaded to encourage people to switch (if their vehicles allowed). So leaded and diesel were both taxed more than unleaded.

This is before diesel became such a Bad Think; when the govt. wanted us all to switch as diesel is more economical.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.

[rbowman]

Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.

[Commander Kinsey]

They're still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.

[Commander Kinsey]

In the UK they've capped energy prices after the covid/Russia farces. But they didn't cap heating oil....

[alan_m]

Yep, we could get our power from Putin's wind farms.

[Frank]

Saw a video yesterday that OPEC's dropping output by just 2% caused a lot of the price rise. If our asshole in charge would take the throttle off US production price would fall considerably. Unfortunately the greenies own him.

[Commander Kinsey]

Greenies are a pest and should be gassed.

[John Larkin]

Girls make the experience even better.

Do you calculate steering and braking forces as you drive?

In engineeering new ideas are usually qualitative and subconscious. May as well get them while you're asleep. Ideas only need analysis (classic math or simulation) once they exist. Good quantity instincts will usually disqualify really bad ideas before you wake up.

[Commander Kinsey]

Plenty space over there, fill the barren unfarmable land to the north with wind farms.

[Commander Kinsey]

I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you're probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).

And if it's a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.

[Commander Kinsey]

Shivering girls are even better.

No, my point exactly. I use instincts as you said.

Indeed. And always have something to write down stuff as soon as you wake up, especially if like me you wake up multiple times in the night. I've been known to remember 6 different dreams by morning. The craziest one was placing a bet on Ladbrokes online. I then did so the next day and won the same £100 as in the dream. But calculating the odds, I should have lost several hundred.

[John Larkin]

I have to write ideas down at 3 AM, or I'll forget them.

Of course, if you do that it's too often obvious in the light of day how crazy the ideas were. But we embrace all ideas, even the crazy ones.

I never remember dreams. I suppose I have them. I do have hallucinations, which are different. They are fun.

[John Larkin]

I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was not outright ugly.

[rbowman]

The P1800 wasn't bad for its time and place. The PV series had a certain pre-war charm. Too bad they were built post-war when the rest of the world had moved on.

A friend had a Healey 3000 that was stolen so he replaced that with another 3000. That was also stolen. He'd had enough of that shit and bought a Volvo. It was also stolen but that one was recovered with minor damage.

They'll steal anything in Boston; Volvos, hot stoves, elections...

[John Larkin]

Nobody stole my Ford Fiesta.

[Commander Kinsey]

Same here. I have a torch and a notepad and pen next to my bed.

Crazy is always fun and often surprisingly correct.

Look up Novadreamer.

Does this require ingestion of mushrooms?