Fuel if you think it’s over... (From Bournemouth Echo)

Fuel if you think it’s over...

8:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010 in

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PETROL at £1.20 a litre? £5.45 a gallon? It’s utter madness!

Remember as a youngster hearing people talk about how terrible it would be if petrol rose above the £1 a gallon mark?

Well, welcome to Greed Central, where the oil companies watch the price of crude oil drop and somehow manage to take the prices at the pumps to unbelievable heights.

But of course, we’re British. Stoical, pragmatic, thick-skinned and possessive of tough chins that can take the insult.

Never mind the French, who would have probably guillotined an oil company boss – we’re British and don’t really complain much, especially when we figure there’s not much we can do about it.

Even the supermarkets appear to have given up the ghost, preferring to keep prices around the main service stations and only slightly below the out-of-town pumps.

Indeed, it’s very sad when the most valuable piece of paper in your wallet is a slip for five pence off a litre of petrol at a Tesco station, but that’s the rocky road we’re travelling.

Of course, I had to buy groceries to the tune of more than £50 to qualify for this windfall.

Still, as one of my colleagues has just helpfully pointed out, at least the price of fuel is considerably less than the price of a pint of beer... although there will be some of us tempted to leave the car in the garage and head off to drown our sorrows!