Gli inglesi hanno esortato a “guidare di meno” tra i timori di un aumento vertiginoso dei prezzi della benzina a causa della guerra con l’Iran
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/petrol-prices-jump-170p-per-litre-iran-war-oil-5HjdW6D_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
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Don’t think many people are driving for fun tbh, we drive because we have to
Return to work from home, reduce petrol demand, price drops. Less petrol purchased, less tax revenue to the Exchequer, budgets get cut.
The situation is fucked either way, I implore anyone who reads any thing like this from any news source, to immediately flush the information down the toilet, and go listen to a song you like instead.
Yeah let me just take your shitty overpriced public transport and add two hours on top of my commute to work with the possibility that the transport will be cancelled lol.
Give it a few weeks and the roads will only have smug EV drivers on them.
Planning to go to Disneyland soon, driving is like a quarter the price of the train which is a similar price to flying despite the flight being half the time!
Don’t drive, but also rely on extortionate public transport that’s either delayed/cancelled/going through maintenance and get back to the office 2+ days a week.
Thanks that’s incredibly helpful “advice” given the shitty (and overpriced) state of public transport in large parts of the country.
That’s fiiiiiiine. I’ll spend 2 hours getting three buses to where it normally takes me 30 mins to drive to and I’ll pay through the nose for a train seat I probably won’t get to sit in because the train is too crowded.
Is there an economic case to be made for lowering train fares? As in, would their profits actually increase through higher useage?
The media are doing everything they can to encourage panic buying.
Of course this happens right after I pass my driving test ffs
I wonder what mental gymnastics the anti-EV lot will come up with for this.
I can see WFH being used for those that simply cannot afford the petrol
Will companies still encouraging workers back into the office? Even though most people can and did their job from home during Covid? If not, then people need to keep driving.
Ah good, more cost of living struggles. Just what the UK needed.
This is literally what Jimmy Carter said during the Iranian revolution.
At least it’s a distraction from the hunger and freezing to death.
On one side of the scale: having to get 3 buses packed with people coughing, and two weirdos with mental issues causing trouble and making the journey even more miserable and intimidating for everyone, at the sound of someone’s loud Tiktok Reels. 2h journey each way, and roll 20 for a flu.
On the other side: more expensive, but it’s just me and people I want, plus I get to pick my music. 30 minutes.
No problem, I’ll just get the bus. Oh wait they just canned my route to work.
I’ll get the train. Oh wait there’s no station remotely close to me, despite living in densely populated suburbs.
I’ll get that new Leeds – Bradford tram system. Oh wait they just pushed that back again.
I’ll take my bike. Oh wait, there’s no safe cycling infrastructure to use.
I guess I’ll drive.
It may be nice for the government to push companies to either help with partial subsidies into mandatory travel expenses or fewer mandatory office days. Most work places will just say ‘tough’ when much of the role can be done from home. I think people should at least be given the option
Shouldn’t need to though, billionaire pedophile cant take responsibility for his actions and everyone else needs to deal with the fallout?
Make those who back this shit pay, not me.
Brilliant, just as my car needs renewing. Maybe electric is the way to go?
You can all thank the bright orange spray-paint man for this.
Looks like we’re gonna get the same sort of people who panic bought all the toilet paper rolling up to every garage in the country with their jerry cans to hog it all. And ust like how the bog roll was panic bought by the type of people who never usually wipe their arse properly anyway, the fuel will be panic bought by the type of people who never venture out their home town.
Instead of telling people to drive less go and tell the pedo in the White House to stop bombing Iran just because Israle told him to do it.
You mean like when the made people work from home halfed the traffic cleared up pollution then as soon as they proved it can be done …they made everyone go back to work… now that a pedo is starting a war to stay in power its back to asking the poor to bend over one more time meanwhile the rich are just carrying on.it doesn’t effect them at all
Not to worry, we’ve got cheap and reliable public transport
WE NEED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE. We need to go full Dutch. It would make us healthier and we could all save an insane amount of money.
My commute is 20 to 30 minutes by car. Roughly 2 hours by 3 buses and a walk or around 2 and a half hours via two trains and a more significant walk. Don’t really have a realistic choice on the matter.
I drive because public transport is shit, and trains are too expensive
Thanks to a megalomaniac in America, who started a war with no real plan or exit strategy, the WHOLE world is going to suffer.
well if they invested in public transport like other EU countries back in the 00 then we wouldnt have to say this would we???? train tickets are expensive, train routes are shit and frankly we dont have enough of it because well government thought everyone would drive.
I can’t drive less than I am now…. I don’t have a car.
Funny how incompetent decisions by our elected representatives all around the world only ever seem to benefit the rich and powerful, while the rest of us enable it day after day and manage the shit that comes with it. Revolution anyone?
Maybe stop all your crony commercial landlords advocating a return to the office then
crude spiked to 116 last night but is now down to just under a dollar a barrel.
wasn’t this bad since 22.
here’s hoping the market gets itself under control soon or we’re all going to be feeling it.