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Post by steve h on Mar 10, 2022 19:15:40 GMT 1
I wonder if fuel oil hoarding has started?
Best make sure you can lock your oil supply up or at least make it a bit more difficult to nick.
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Post by steve63 on Mar 10, 2022 21:05:27 GMT 1
I wonder if fuel oil hoarding has started? Best make sure you can lock your oil supply up or at least make it a bit more difficult to nick. The old couple in the bungalow across the road from us had £350 worth nicked a few years ago. They live on a corner, the first house in the village really and the tank is right in the corner as well and only 10 foot or so from the road. That was probably when it was 38p a litre as well. People will be getting shot for £1.20 a litre 🙂 |
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Post by steve63 on Mar 10, 2022 21:10:04 GMT 1
I wonder if fuel oil hoarding has started? Best make sure you can lock your oil supply up or at least make it a bit more difficult to nick. I'm not going to buy it to hoard at £1.20 a litre! I do have some spare bin bags though mmmmm 🤔 Seriously though. This tank should last until December when Brexit, sorry, COVID 19, sorry, the war in Ukraine will all be history and we are back to normal............. Oh how I'm going to laugh reading this back in two years when Putin puts my internet back on and my National Service is over. |
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Mar 10, 2022 21:16:04 GMT 1
Don't know about heating oil hoarding but heard today of colleagues in the NE having problems finding petrol/diesel 🙄
Steve
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Post by headcoats on Mar 10, 2022 21:17:23 GMT 1
The taxi drivers will be filling their cellars with petrol in open topped containers again !
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Post by jam911 on Mar 10, 2022 21:21:13 GMT 1
The quote from the CEO of BP saying this about rising oil prices "BP’s boss called the company a “cash machine” just shows how we are being "f+cked at every level.
It should be a legal requirement that as the price per barrel drops so do the forecourt prices because the rise as soon as they can.
It now costs me 120 more per month to drive to work than it did a few months ago, with no pay rise..and lets not mention heating oil rises...
....poor people in the Ukraine ...f**k Putin !!
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Post by philmill on Mar 11, 2022 20:35:40 GMT 1
I paid 62p 3 weeks ago, I wish I'd ordered more than 500 litres.. Boiler Juice quoted 1.29 last week and now won't quote as others have found. It's crazy.
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Post by wassy06 on Mar 11, 2022 20:59:45 GMT 1
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Post by donkeychomp on Mar 11, 2022 22:30:50 GMT 1
Not oil...but water. Last year's bill was £126. This year £416. What the actual f**k?? Going to phone the b*****ds tomorrow.
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Post by steve63 on Mar 14, 2022 13:40:25 GMT 1
Not oil...but water. Last year's bill was £126. This year £416. What the actual f**k?? Going to phone the b*****ds tomorrow. Alex Water is in short supply due to Brexit and Covid 19 and now Putin. I think ours is £300+ and we aren't even on mains sewerage. I would say they were taking the pi$$ but they literally don't. |
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Post by steve h on Mar 14, 2022 14:05:42 GMT 1
Not oil...but water. Last year's bill was £126. This year £416. What the actual f**k?? Going to phone the b*****ds tomorrow. Alex Water is in short supply due to Brexit and Covid 19 and now Putin. I think ours is £300+ and we aren't even on mains sewerage. I would say they were taking the pi$$ but they literally don't. "I would say they were taking the piss but they literally dont" Oh yes they do...and then pipe it back to you....after cleaning of course. Price increases are nowt to do with the above. They are due to global warming... water's evaporating at a fantastic unchecked rate, making it rare and thus increasing its value. So expect prices of Perrier to sky rocket...sad times ahead. There has been much global warming round here this winter with unprecedented amounts of lying water and floods. Maybe one day some bright spark might dream up a way of catching it in a river with a dam across it..... |
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Post by stirling11 on Mar 15, 2022 11:24:59 GMT 1
You could try making your own from the old fish and chip shop cooking oil
Lots of info on the net on how to do it, do a deal with your local chippy
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Post by steve63 on Mar 15, 2022 13:42:22 GMT 1
Water is in short supply due to Brexit and Covid 19 and now Putin. I think ours is £300+ and we aren't even on mains sewerage. I would say they were taking the pi$$ but they literally don't. "I would say they were taking the piss but they literally dont" Oh yes they do...and then pipe it back to you....after cleaning of course. Price increases are nowt to do with the above. They are due to global warming... water's evaporating at a fantastic unchecked rate, making it rare and thus increasing its value. So expect prices of Perrier to sky rocket...sad times ahead. There has been much global warming round here this winter with unprecedented amounts of lying water and floods. Maybe one day some bright spark might dream up a way of catching it in a river with a dam across it..... It's only rare during the week. As soon as 2pm on a Friday comes around it seems to be quite common around here. Ah but my pi$$ and the (usually) much thicker waste product is collected in a tank and taken away every year or two by a nice man to be presumably driven away a couple of miles before being pumped into a ditch somewhere. To be honest once it's left my safe custody I've not given it much thought as to where it goes  Back in the good old days all of it was spread on the fields and was known as 'night soil.' These young uns think they invented re-cycling  |
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Post by steve63 on Mar 15, 2022 13:48:18 GMT 1
You could try making your own from the old fish and chip shop cooking oil Lots of info on the net on how to do it, do a deal with your local chippy I'll have a look out of curiosity but I can imagine there is already a big demand for their old oil. I wonder how often they change it? I bet it's not often. I received an email the other day about domestic heating oil made from vegetable oil. I guess it's like bio diesel. Electricity prices are going through the roof, Heat pumps (ground and air source) cost a fortune to install, have a short life span are not very efficient and use electricity anyway so it seems like a good direction to go in. Saying that the bottom line will be the cost. |
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Post by steve h on Mar 15, 2022 14:36:21 GMT 1
You could try making your own from the old fish and chip shop cooking oil Lots of info on the net on how to do it, do a deal with your local chippy Real chippies use dripping............. You must be down south?  I've installed plant on *hit works that treats human humus so it could be spread on the land. The farmers in the area could not get enough of it. The water board even had a driver and tanker dedicated to spreading on the fields for the farmers. We dont have the heating on much here. Was 10 degC the other night (inside the house) and it wasn't cold enough to switch the heating on. |
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Post by oldbritguy on Mar 15, 2022 17:08:19 GMT 1
You could try making your own from the old fish and chip shop cooking oil Lots of info on the net on how to do it, do a deal with your local chippy Real chippies use dripping............. You must be down south? I've installed plant on *hit works that treats human humus so it could be spread on the land. The farmers in the area could not get enough of it. The water board even had a driver and tanker dedicated to spreading on the fields for the farmers. We dont have the heating on much here. Was 10 degC the other night (inside the house) and it wasn't cold enough to switch the heating on. 10 degrees!! You must be down south in the tropics. Us north o the wall cook everything in dripping. Famous for it 😁 |
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Post by stirling11 on Mar 16, 2022 12:27:07 GMT 1
Yes Steve63, you are essentially making bio-diesel
Modern diesel vehicles don’t really like it, however it will work just fine in a boiler although the outside of the house will probably smell of the local chippy or Chinese restaurant
Then of course you have the Pyrolysis of old tyres, you get about 2 litres of diesel from one passenger tyre
The “diesel” product you get from the pyrolysis is almost indistinguishable from real diesel, you get the same performance too
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Post by steve63 on Mar 16, 2022 13:40:38 GMT 1
You could try making your own from the old fish and chip shop cooking oil Lots of info on the net on how to do it, do a deal with your local chippy Real chippies use dripping............. You must be down south?  I've installed plant on *hit works that treats human humus so it could be spread on the land. The farmers in the area could not get enough of it. The water board even had a driver and tanker dedicated to spreading on the fields for the farmers. We dont have the heating on much here. Was 10 degC the other night (inside the house) and it wasn't cold enough to switch the heating on. We had no heating on in our house last weekend. The oil was so low it was below the sight glass and I didn't know what the consequences would be of running it dry so we left it off. Even in a cold house there was still no chance of sharing body heat so I won't bother trying that one again. Anyway our delivery arrived and we can have it back on if we need it now but my Mrs has gone real odd and keeps turning it off. I thought I was supposed to turn into my Dad not her. For a laugh I thought I would see how much oil was now so I put my details into Boiler Juice but it wouldn't give me a quote. |
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Post by tipfinchy on Mar 16, 2022 14:05:07 GMT 1
Not oil...but water. Last year's bill was £126. This year £416. What the actual f**k?? Going to phone the b*****ds tomorrow. Alex how did you get on? leak? i would guess your on a water meter , if you was on a tariff and not metered there is no way it could go up that much mart |
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Post by veg on Mar 16, 2022 14:22:44 GMT 1
Down to a 1/4 of a tank takes 1250litres looks like I’ll be getting hammered v shortly.
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Post by wassy06 on Mar 16, 2022 14:26:44 GMT 1
Down to a 1/4 of a tank takes 1250litres looks like I’ll be getting hammered v shortly. Just looked on homefuelsdirect and the price has dropped since last week homefuelsdirect.co.uk |
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Post by dusty350 on Mar 17, 2022 8:24:55 GMT 1
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Post by steve h on Mar 17, 2022 14:28:13 GMT 1
 Steve63, was thinking about what you said about rain starting at 2pm on fridays..... thank fook!! it's not just me that notices it!!!! If I had a pound for every time it happened, I'd have enough money to pay the bastid gas bill!!!!
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Post by donkeychomp on Mar 17, 2022 22:01:24 GMT 1
Not oil...but water. Last year's bill was £126. This year £416. What the actual f**k?? Going to phone the b*****ds tomorrow. Alex how did you get on? leak? i would guess your on a water meter , if you was on a tariff and not metered there is no way it could go up that much mart Hi Mart Yep I found out. Seems they just decided to charge me a fixed rate as they are now going on the house values in the area (or something like that) but he suggested I get a meter (booked for an install). So then my bill will plummet and I can expect a large refund of my £416. Okay then, let's see what happens. Alex |
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Post by steve63 on Mar 21, 2022 13:54:24 GMT 1
 Steve63, was thinking about what you said about rain starting at 2pm on fridays..... thank fook!! it's not just me that notices it!!!! If I had a pound for every time it happened, I'd have enough money to pay the bastid gas bill!!!! I don't know where you are but it was a pretty sunny weekend here on the Costa Del East Coast of Yorkshire for a change but I had a task to do so no wasting time riding a motorcycle in a big circle I'm sorry to say. I look out the window at the sun all week and think...I'll come on the bike on Friday. Then either the weather gets crappy or I need to use the car to pick something up/drop something off/do the shopping (last Friday) and it doesn't happen. Well after this weekend when the clocks change it'll be light enough and hopefully warm enough to make it worthwhile going out after work. We've had a change of hours here meaning I can start early and be away for 4pm during the week so happy (ish) days. TBH I would go to work on the bike a lot more if it wasn't such a faff getting it out of the garage and garden. A sign of having a choice now and becoming fat and lazy I suppose. |
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Post by steve63 on Mar 21, 2022 14:04:43 GMT 1
how did you get on? leak? i would guess your on a water meter , if you was on a tariff and not metered there is no way it could go up that much mart Hi Mart Yep I found out. Seems they just decided to charge me a fixed rate as they are now going on the house values in the area (or something like that) but he suggested I get a meter (booked for an install). So then my bill will plummet and I can expect a large refund of my £416. Okay then, let's see what happens. Alex The agenda has always been to get everyone on a meter and when they are they can crank up the prices at will. To make meters look more attractive they are doing everyone over who's not on one. Meanwhile the water main a couple of miles away from us that has bust many times in the last five years has gone again wasting hundreds if not thousands of gallons of the stuff. Apparently the water companies answer to bust mains it to turn the pressure down. Our pressure if far higher here out in the sticks than it was in the town. |
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Mar 21, 2022 15:11:36 GMT 1
Passed a shocking milestone this morning
Filled the Mondeo with diesel
£101.99 😳
Never been over £100
Steve
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Post by oldbritguy on Mar 21, 2022 20:07:11 GMT 1
Ooft!
I was £54 today for about 3/4 tank of petrol
Having a relatively small fuel tank helps psychologically but the reality is much different 🤨
John
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Post by tell7437 on Mar 21, 2022 22:46:08 GMT 1
At work we have to use BP stations to fuel the vans, we were paying £10.99 for 10 litre drums of adblue now they are about £17.99 , pish.
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Post by veg on Mar 21, 2022 23:15:18 GMT 1
Got a 90 litre tank always cost a fortune I’m trying to avoid filling it at these prices. 😁
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