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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
What a load of bollocks. Did someone's parrot write that email? If so, it must have been drunk.
There is one simple solution to the price of fuel - keep your car in the garage (or even better, scrap it) - then walk. Some of you might even get reasonably fit, so that hopefully in the next few weeks or months, we won't get the clinically obese characters coming on here complaining about longer queues for NHS treatment.
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Your advice is fine and dandy if you are talking about local distances, but many many people have to work.......and unfortunately for them the work isn't always on the doorstep. Transport is necessary, and you cannot rely on public transport if you have a job with even slightly unsocial hours I'm talking 6pm here...... as some buses stop running at 5pm.
Shopping......now there is another thorny problem, mother with two children needs to stock up her cupboards.......corner shops are long gone......their demise hastened by the likes of Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's........ walking to the shops might prove no problem,but coming back with the children and bags of food........?does the mother buy a donkey and cart to take her to the shops and bring back the food?
Do you live in the real world? Do you live off beer and fags?
I'm pretty sure you will have a smart come-back answer........but for some people a car is a necessity.