Cobbler
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Just popped out to get some diesel, none in the Shell station, only super diesel, £1.67 a litre!
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Truck pumps the other day were £1.71 a litre and annoyingly their system had something wrong with it. The div behind the till tried to get me to pay on my own card, £860! (That was just for one tank
) Over I think £800 spend roughly it won’t accept a single payment on a fuel card on welcome breaks systems. 
123hotchef
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even veg oil has gone up! still cheaper than pump derv though!
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Truck pumps the other day were £1.71 a litre and annoyingly their system had something wrong with it. The div behind the till tried to get me to pay on my own card, £860! (That was just for one tank
Never spent that much but some divs have no idea on fuel cards, was once asked why I'd bought £100 worth of oil, I hadn't but they put my fuel through the till like that
Truck pumps the other day were £1.71 a litre and annoyingly their system had something wrong with it. The div behind the till tried to get me to pay on my own card, £860! (That was just for one tank
As an ex-Welcome Break "div", he/she had probably already seen more "divs" driving trucks, vans and company cars than you will have dealt with all week relating to anything, trying to put anything and everything on fuel cards that day and complaining when you can't. And if their system had gone down, anything from a issue with the till, the scanner, the pump system, finance office or internet connection, they'll be looking forward to a really enjoyable shift trying to make it work, still find time to get to the loo, or even manage to take a break (I can recall one one hand the number of times I got a full break in 18mths of nights).
Smile, relax - and maybe make just a few moments of the poor sap on next to minimum wage (probably still being paid an average of 35 hrs a week, even though last "week" they worked a whole lot more, with no overtime, as next "week" it will be less) day just a little better.
And you never know, when you get stuck with a flat tyre, flat battery, or are just tired and knackered at mid-night waiting for the pumps to click off, they might just chuck you a free satchet or two for the coffee machine, 'cos you, and your and your vehicle stuck in their mind as someone a bit less of a complete t**t than the rest of the general public, who seem to make it their ambition to be one.
I can still remember the "nice" drivers and I stopped working for Welcome Break in 1995 - even got wedding cake slices from two lorry drivers who used to come through! And their complaints about the new governors/limiters affecting their ability to climb the hills on the M62
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I tried to use my fuel card to pay for my fuel. Normally they split it but he was adminet he couldn’t, he had me sat nearly 2h. Eventually he did split it. After saying he couldn’t. Even though every other welcome break cashier does split it for whatever reason they have to. Just to add, it wasn’t my fuel card that was the issue, it has a 1100ltr limit. He definitely was a div, most are fine however.As an ex-Welcome Break "div", he/she had probably already seen more "divs" driving trucks, vans and company cars than you will have dealt with all week relating to anything, trying to put anything and everything on fuel cards that day and complaining when you can't. And if their system had gone down, anything from a issue with the till, the scanner, the pump system, finance office or internet connection, they'll be looking forward to a really enjoyable shift trying to make it work, still find time to get to the loo, or even manage to take a break (I can recall one one hand the number of times I got a full break in 18mths of nights).
Smile, relax - and maybe make just a few moments of the poor sap on next to minimum wage (probably still being paid an average of 35 hrs a week, even though last "week" they worked a whole lot more, with no overtime, as next "week" it will be less) day just a little better.
And you never know, when you get stuck with a flat tyre, flat battery, or are just tired and knackered at mid-night waiting for the pumps to click off, they might just chuck you a free satchet or two for the coffee machine, 'cos you, and your and your vehicle stuck in their mind as someone a bit less of a complete t**t than the rest of the general public, who seem to make it their ambition to be one.
I can still remember the "nice" drivers and I stopped working for Welcome Break in 1995 - even got wedding cake slices from two lorry drivers who used to come through! And their complaints about the new governors/limiters affecting their ability to climb the hills on the M62
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Our energy deal finishes in a couple of weeks so we knew the price would probably double and have arranged for solar pv to be fitted soon, the thing that ****** me off is that EDF are very smug “we offer a Smart Export Guarantee for our customers with solar”. This gives a guaranteed payment for what you export, they offer………. 1.5p per Kw very generous considering they immediately sell it for >30p.
We seem to use a lot of eletric so at the new prices our ROI will only be about 5 years!
Keep smiling
We seem to use a lot of eletric so at the new prices our ROI will only be about 5 years!
Keep smiling
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Think a lot of our imported is from the Norwegian fields or LNG but as you say the prices will still go up no matter where it comes from
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If you did try it without turning the CUs main switch off I doubt many generators would run, all the other local houses would still be connected so your little generator would be trying to supply those as well, either the generators breaker would trip out or the unit would stall
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Those people I know who have built Passive esque houses with high insulation levels, air tightness that far exceeds building regs, MVHR, masses of PV, storage batteries and an EV are all a bit smug.
With the recent power cuts, one without battery storage did complain the "house got a bit stuffy". Shock horror they had to open a window!
They have literally insulated themselves against these energy price rises to a large degree. Scale that up on a national level and Russia etc might have less of a market for their gas & oil. You have to wonder why successive governments don't.....
Of course you need a few quid to do such a build in the first place but what a lovely position to be in!
With the recent power cuts, one without battery storage did complain the "house got a bit stuffy". Shock horror they had to open a window!
They have literally insulated themselves against these energy price rises to a large degree. Scale that up on a national level and Russia etc might have less of a market for their gas & oil. You have to wonder why successive governments don't.....
Of course you need a few quid to do such a build in the first place but what a lovely position to be in!
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Double pole switch, no PME for me I'm on earth rods.
What I did is no different to having a generator changeover switch which I'll be buying soon now Putin has invaded!!!
More heating oil is on order now, we had a delivery a few weeks ago but the missus only ordered 500 liters
What I did is no different to having a generator changeover switch which I'll be buying soon now Putin has invaded!!!
More heating oil is on order now, we had a delivery a few weeks ago but the missus only ordered 500 liters
Onoff
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More heating oil is on order now, we had a delivery a few weeks ago but the missus only ordered 500 liters
Remember back when it dropped to around 17p/L?
Onoff
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Dear God! I'm looking at £1600...Yes!
Looks like it's 80p a liter already.
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