Fuel Price Shoots Up, what a surprise.

[johnny2007]

Thought so... You're not going to even attempt to explain how your neighbour managed to buy a car that he couldn't charge at home - or why he's absolutely getting his butt kicked on his domestic electricity tariff... We'll have to start calling you "half-a-story Johnny", I think...

Can you point out where I said my neighbour can't charge his milk float at home?
I mean, ask someone to read this and explain it to you...

 

[johnny2007]

I'm in Czech Republic at present. Fuel is around the £1/litre mark here. They don't have any of their own oil, unlike UK.

As the Americans say - go figure?

I suppose we get punished for using ICE vehicles and politicians use the extra money for...
WTF do they use the extra money for???
Do they pay mother nature to take an extra shower a day???

 

[Avocet]

Can you point out where I said my neighbour can't charge his milk float at home?
I mean, ask someone to read this and explain it to you...

No, you never said that. (Just as I never said he couldn't charge at home. I ASKED various questions and raised that as one possibility) . I'm interested in finding our WHY your neighbour says his EV is costing "as much in electricity as when he had his petrol car". (Hopefully, you're not going to deny saying that, because it's a direct quote)!

So far, possible reasons that I can see are:

1. He's getting his butt kicked on his home electricity tariff (I've already raised this possibility).
2. He can't charge at home and has to only use public chargers. (I've also raised that as a possibility).
Other possibilities could include:
3. He's now driving much further than he used to do in his petrol car.
4. He's bought a prodigiously "thirsty" EV and isn't comparing like-with-like.
5. His previous petrol "car", was, in fact, a moped.
6. He's wrong.

There may be other possibilities, of course!

 

[Avocet]

I'm in Czech Republic at present. Fuel is around the £1/litre mark here. They don't have any of their own oil, unlike UK.

As the Americans say - go figure?

Lots of countries have different commodities at different prices. It's always been that way.

 

[Avocet]

I suppose we get punished for using ICE vehicles and politicians use the extra money for...
WTF do they use the extra money for???
Do they pay mother nature to take an extra shower a day???

The price of fuel has been high here (and has suffered from significant fluctuations) since long before EVs were ever "a thing"...

 

[Nail In]

Yep. Looks like they have gone up again. As per

Latest UK petrol and diesel prices | RAC Drive

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www.rac.co.uk

 

[johnny2007]

Doesn't he have electricity at home?



I could see how someone who managed to get themselves an EV without first stopping to think whether they could charge at home or not, might struggle with working out where to go to charge it...

No, you never said that. (Just as I never said he couldn't charge at home. I ASKED various questions and raised that as one possibility) . I'm interested in finding our WHY your neighbour says his EV is costing "as much in electricity as when he had his petrol car". (Hopefully, you're not going to deny saying that, because it's a direct quote)!

See above...
I mean, get your translator to explain it to you.

 

[johnny2007]

The price of fuel has been high here (and has suffered from significant fluctuations) since long before EVs were ever "a thing"...

We go back to my initial statement.
Whenever the c#nts at the top make up that there's a crisis/emergency, we get shafted by paying higher prices or more tax.
Doesn't bother some people here because they never paid tax evidently...

 

[Avocet]

See above...
I mean, get your translator to explain it to you.

Yes, that curly thing with the dot under it at the end of the sentence, is what we call a "question mark". These tend to get used when someone is asking a question... I thought they taught this stuff in schools?

The second statement is me making an observation that the kind of person who is daft enough to buy an EV without devoting any thought as to how he's going to charge it and what it's likely to cost him to charge, is probably also the kind of person for whom finding a suitable charging point on a journey, might prove to be "a big ask".

So I'm keen to know more. I'm keen to understand your neighbour's problem and why it's costing him so much. But of course, if you'd rather not say, that's fine with me. I'll just draw my conclusions from what little information that you've already provided. They might not be very complimentary to your neighbour, but it's no skin off my nose either way...

 

[Avocet]

We go back to my initial statement.
Whenever the c#nts at the top make up that there's a crisis/emergency, we get shafted by paying higher prices or more tax.
Doesn't bother some people here because they never paid tax evidently...

Sorry, that one doesn't wash, either. Ever since I was a kid, (which is long before climate change OR EVs were ever "a thing"), folk have been crying about the price of petrol in Britain. If they don't like it they could carry on crying about it or they could actually do something about it. For example, moving to one of these other utopias with cheap petrol (oh, hang on, no, they voted themselves out of the right to do that), or they could get a vehicle that doesn't run on oil...

...like an EV perhaps...

I wonder what a Venn diagram of all the people who hated EVs and all the people who moaned about the cost of fuel would look like...?

 

[johnny2007]

Another one has lost the plot.
Where's Himmy?

 

[Avocet]

Another one has lost the plot.
Where's Himmy?

 

[Brigadier]

Another one has lost the plot.
Where's Himmy?

I've already shown you that your neighbour can easily charge - to 100% - at home for under a fiver.

If he doesn't, he's in no position to complain about the cost of charging AND retain any credibility, imo.

 

[johnny2007]

I've already shown you that your neighbour can easily charge - to 100% - at home for under a fiver.

If he doesn't, he's in no position to complain about the cost of charging AND retain any credibility, imo.

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[Brigadier]

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