Petrol prices
Finally, it looks like the price of petrol is starting to drop.
Petrol prices fell below £1 for the first time this year at outlets like Morrisons in Stoke-on-Trent.
It’s about time. I travel over 60 miles-a-day and the cost of fuel is crippling me.
And yes, I know I’m harming the environment by spewing fumes all the way down the M6 to the Potteries every day. That’s a little fact I didn’t mention to Friends of the Earth when I signed up for their newsletter and a monthly contribution.
Because I do believe in protecting the environment – but like most people, I’m a complete hypocrit. I loudly curse America and China for poisoning the planet. I’ll shout swearwords at land rover drivers in their gas guzzling monstrosities as they pass me by (although why you need a 4×4 in Manchester, Stoke or Crewe is beyond me). And I watched Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and heeded its message.
None of it stops me getting in my clapped out Toyota and driving 32-miles to work every morning. It doesn’t get me walking to the shops when I need a pint of milk. And it doesn’t make me jump on a bus when I want to go to town.
Like I say, I’m a complete hypocrite. But I bet there’s millions of hypocrites like me out there. People who don’t put their money where their mouths are, who spit their chewing gum onto the pavement when they think no-one’s looking, then bitch about others dumping cans of stella in the local park.
But, like every other hypocrit in the country, I’ve got my standards, you stick to yours.
