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[TheBoy]

Bin collections is all we get for our £1500 pa council tax. 

I might have to move to Albs Country.  Sounds far too cheap.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Had a battle with the council several years ago and got dropped into a lower band. 

[Kevin Wood]

... This year it is £37 per bin ....

You can swap those two digits around and you'll be pretty close to how much it is here.

[TheBoy]

Saw £1.939 at a BP earlier.

[Varche]

Lastfilled up with normal dieselat 1 euro 86. Our Spanish government  reduced the price by twenty cents a litre.

Filled up today with super diesel at…….. 1 euro 86. Normal was 1.81. So real price  2.01.

What is it nowin the UK

[Doctor Gollum]

£1.68 this morning.

[STEMO]

£1.72-£1.80 in Barnsley

[TheBoy]

The signs from the 3 outlets in and around the town vary from £1.749 to £1.899 for tractor fuel.  But none of them actually have any. Still.

[Lizzie Zoom]

£1.698 At Sainsbury’s and at the local BP filling station.

But, Sainsbury’s had sold out of all fuel, and the BP had only unleaded left. Why?

 Well it is because down here there is gridlock on the M20, M2, A20 and A2, due to the P&O ferry fiasco with international truckers waiting to get down to Dover.  The M20 has been closed for all coastal traffic from junction 8 at Maidstone, to Junction 11 at Folkestone for one gigantic lorry park!

Apart from on truly ‘local’ roads, no traffic is moving any distance easily, including fuel tankers delivering to the filling stations. This chaos has now spread up to North East, North and South Kent.
Politicians are pushing for a state of emergency to be called to resolve this issue, with the P&O ferries not due to return to service until next week, and the Euro shuttle trains, along with the few remaining operating ferries being overwhelmed.

So prices are not the problem for us at the moment. 

[YZ250]

Filled mine up at Esso at £1.78.

[TheBoy]

£1.698 At Sainsbury’s and at the local BP filling station.

But, Sainsbury’s had sold out of all fuel, and the BP had only unleaded left. Why?

 Well it is because down here there is gridlock on the M20, M2, A20 and A2, due to the P&O ferry fiasco with international truckers waiting to get down to Dover.  The M20 has been closed for all coastal traffic from junction 8 at Maidstone, to Junction 11 at Folkestone for one gigantic lorry park!

Apart from on truly ‘local’ roads, no traffic is moving any distance easily, including fuel tankers delivering to the filling stations. This chaos has now spread up to North East, North and South Kent.
Politicians are pushing for a state of emergency to be called to resolve this issue, with the P&O ferries not due to return to service until next week, and the Euro shuttle trains, along with the few remaining operating ferries being overwhelmed.

So prices are not the problem for us at the moment. 

Its not just the P&O situation causing delays in Kent, there is also GVMS has been fubar for the past week.

Still, its what "we" voted for


Although fuel scarcities are all over pockets of England, partly due to a lack of tanker drivers (again, what "we" voted for), partly due to the misinformed fuel protesters.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

£1.698 At Sainsbury’s and at the local BP filling station.

But, Sainsbury’s had sold out of all fuel, and the BP had only unleaded left. Why?

 Well it is because down here there is gridlock on the M20, M2, A20 and A2, due to the P&O ferry fiasco with international truckers waiting to get down to Dover.  The M20 has been closed for all coastal traffic from junction 8 at Maidstone, to Junction 11 at Folkestone for one gigantic lorry park!

Apart from on truly ‘local’ roads, no traffic is moving any distance easily, including fuel tankers delivering to the filling stations. This chaos has now spread up to North East, North and South Kent.
Politicians are pushing for a state of emergency to be called to resolve this issue, with the P&O ferries not due to return to service until next week, and the Euro shuttle trains, along with the few remaining operating ferries being overwhelmed.

So prices are not the problem for us at the moment. 

Its not just the P&O situation causing delays in Kent, there is also GVMS has been fubar for the past week.

Still, its what "we" voted for


Although fuel scarcities are all over pockets of England, partly due to a lack of tanker drivers (again, what "we" voted for), partly due to the misinformed fuel protesters.

Are you saying you voted for brexit, TB?.......or are you being all sarky?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Just went Morrisons on the way to work and they had no Diesel. Went to a small independent garage down the road and paid 179.9p per litre. 

[Doctor Gollum]

I had an email from UPS informing me that a parcel they were delivering from Lithuania was being delayed by Euro tunnel and they were working on alternative arrangements. It arrived the following morning.

Can't see what all the fuss is about 

Dover hold ups have been happening for decades. Every time a road is widened, bigger ferry added, longer freight trains etc, traffic levels increase almost exponentially.

Dover itself is a bottleneck by virtue of its geography as much as anything else. And why queue for four days when you could use one of at least four other ports to get to France. Sure the crossing may be longer, but surely they are more time efficient than being stuck in Kent

[Lizzie Zoom]

I had an email from UPS informing me that a parcel they were delivering from Lithuania was being delayed by Euro tunnel and they were working on alternative arrangements. It arrived the following morning.

Can't see what all the fuss is about 

Dover hold ups have been happening for decades. Every time a road is widened, bigger ferry added, longer freight trains etc, traffic levels increase almost exponentially.

Dover itself is a bottleneck by virtue of its geography as much as anything else. And why queue for four days when you could use one of at least four other ports to get to France. Sure the crossing may be longer, but surely they are more time efficient than being stuck in Kent

If it was all that simple, please explain then why an estimated 5,000 trucks are now parked up in Kent on many major roads and in lorry parks?

If you really believe it is all avoidable, then why are major, very commercially astute, transport companies taking on board massive extra costs every day this is all happening?

Towns such as Dover, Folkestone, and our Ashford are also suffering greatly from the gridlock which is apparently going to be worse over this holiday weekend.