Re: Petrol in Cumbria?


<Johnny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1126702283_31253@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > You sound very much like us, Ally. We filled up last week
> > at the Asda
> > station in Corby- they are by far the cheapest petrol in
> > this vicinity. Since then the car has not been out of the
> > garage. This morning the message seems to have got through
> > that there is no real shortage of petrol. We have just
> > walked up to the market and noticed no queues at the town
> > petrol station. I am no lover of the car but we do live in
> > the country and have little choice but to shop out of town
> > occasionally. My biggest mileage is when we come up to
> > Cumbria!
> >
> >
> > Rex.
>
> This sounds incredible from where I sit. Shows you how
> successful the system has been at manipulating the population
> by fear mongering. A similar thing has happened here over the
> past two weeks here. Prices of gas shot up 50% even though
> none of our gas comes from the Gulf coast. It's alread nearly
> back down to pre-New Orleans prices.
>
> I heard a wonderful lecture last night about the human race
> entitled 'A brief history of progress'. It described how
> humans and our ancestors have been the worst thing to ever
> happen to this planet. All supported by research. For instance
> over the past 250,000 years, arrowheads have become smaller
> and smaller. Man used to hunt mastadons and huge animals but
> we were so successful that we caused their extinction. We
> hunted smaller and smaller game as more and more species were
> destroyed. We're down to shooting rabbits now. We started out
> as hunters and gatherers. Hunters have become herders and
> gatherers have become gardiners. We now rely on a fragile
> system of food production - stressed to the limit to feeed 6
> billion people - that relies solely on everything remaining
> constant - climate stability and no more population growth -
> but of course we are causing global warming and over-
> population and it will destroy our ability to grow crops and
> we will become extinct very shortly. The lecturer summarised
> that a dead end for humanity was a fitting end for the
> deadliest species ever to grace the planet.
>
> Johnny

With other words, there's not much more we can do wrong then.

Edith-glad that a life, at the most, lasts 100 years only


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