speedyranger74
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EV Fuel Price Protest
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Drew57
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Some people use letters assembled in a way that look a bit like English words but are a mystery.You are using English words, but the way you have assembled them is a mystery.
Must be a brit thing. Happy 4th, independent for 246 years!
(In my defense we are close neighbors but we donāt always share the same humor so I apologize if this causes offense)
We ring, they call
Their Petrol's Gas
Their Fries our Chips
but Chips are Crisps
Our Biscuits, Cookies
their Garbage, Trash
A Bathroom for a pee
& our Zed, their Zee
Trousers might be Pants
and Queues, A Line
...but Autumn's not Fall
now they've lost us all
& I think I should now movie along
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If our exchange rate was back towards $1.50 instead of $1.20 then fuel would be way cheaper. But that's down to absurd governmental profligacy - covid waste, hs2, top-heavy bureaucracy and the nonsense of a consumer driven society depending on importing unnecessary crap for people to buy, waste and throw away. I recall these boom-bust cycles for my full 55 adult years and nothing much has changed apart from the switch to trying to deal with them by dropping interest rates instead of raising them. the flaw in dropping them is that itās difficult to go to negative figures.
Sparkeur
Member
Boris Johnson's hair is like FSD. Theoretically, it should work but in practice, it's all over the place.
Jason71
Well-Known Member
Says the guy on the consumer forum for a brand of imported luxury car......
ACarneiro
Active Member
You deliberately truncated his message at ābuy, waste and throw awayā, which makes a significant difference to the spirit of the sentence.Says the guy on the consumer forum for a brand of imported luxury car......
Most (but not all!) of us donāt throw away our cars after a minimal period of use
"I'm so angry about fuel prices, I'm going to chop off my right arm in protest. That'll larn 'em!"
Which is what these protestors did, in effect. Wasting the very fuel money they are protesting about, rolling along a motorway at a highly inefficient speed.
You couldn't make it up.... muppets.
Which is what these protestors did, in effect. Wasting the very fuel money they are protesting about, rolling along a motorway at a highly inefficient speed.
You couldn't make it up.... muppets.
stonecoldrmw
Member
My Octopus Go rates have been frozen for a year. If you feel left out, go and complain to them, you may get your rates frozen too!
Jason71
Well-Known Member
octopus go night rate
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the day rate now is up to 40p per kw though (gulp) so its becoming swings and roundabouts at this point!
Jason71
Well-Known Member
fake newsYou deliberately truncated his message at ābuy, waste and throw awayā, which makes a significant difference to the spirit of the sentence.
Most (but not all!) of us donāt throw away our cars after a minimal period of use
..try finding a car built totally in britain that hasn't had engine parts shuttled around 2 or 3 other countries from casting to machining to assembly...Says the guy on the consumer forum for a brand of imported luxury car......
What i don't do is chuck stuff away every year or two to have the most modern, buy out of season fruits and veggies that have to be airlifted or wear the latest fashions etc. Nor do i frequest foreign franchise coffee and takeways places or subscribe to their streaming services... But reality is ya can't avoid it all.
At this rate, dual tariffs/night rates will be a trap for the unweary. I suspect in the near future lots of new EV buyers will get stung with 'EV' tariffs that purport to save them money but cost them more because of the day rate, until legislation catches up and forces suppliers to check / disclose the potential pitfalls.
15p peak and 5p off peak... ok ok no one likes a smug tw8t
And 6.24kw of freshly installed solar so current peak use is about 3kw/day, powerwall coming in Feb!
And 6.24kw of freshly installed solar so current peak use is about 3kw/day, powerwall coming in Feb!
Jason71
Well-Known Member
My 3 hours night rate accounts for 40-50% of my electricity usage so even 40/7.5 would work out better for me than price cap but I agree. Octopus Day rate back in the day was almost as good as most single price tariffs so it was a no brainer. now a bit of calculation is needed + the willingness to run your dishwasher, washing machine, tumble drier etc overnight ( you know like the fire brigade tell you not to)
PITA
Model 3 Performance
I'm on Octopus Go... 7.5p / 30p / 25p Standing Charge until March 2023
The trick for me is 3 Phase... I can download a lot of cheap power in 4 hours to home and cars.
Even though two Powerwalls (27kWh) is only half my daily Home Use quota (during deep Winter), I can at least offset some of this inevitable 'peak rate' useage cost against cheap Car Charging.
So... I can live with that.
The trick for me is 3 Phase... I can download a lot of cheap power in 4 hours to home and cars.
Even though two Powerwalls (27kWh) is only half my daily Home Use quota (during deep Winter), I can at least offset some of this inevitable 'peak rate' useage cost against cheap Car Charging.
So... I can live with that.
PITA
Model 3 Performance
yeah, this is the thing. Octopus Go is a fixed rate deal so given the rising prices over the year is going to be higher than the variable rate, so while variable rate folks may smart at the daytime pricing now, they likely won't after October.
I don't really see that being the case, at least with Octopus.
I think more of the question is how long will Octopus be able to keep providing Go, wholesale prices don't seem to be match their discount period, sometimes not at all. I can see why Intelligent Octopus is a thing, and the new response based charging will no doubt become the primary method for EVs to receive discount in the future.
