How will you save money? If you even need to?

I filled up my van a couple of weeks ago. I say filled up, the pump stopped at £99 when I was a few litres short of full. £1.97 per litre. This morning at Tescos it was down to £1.80 a litre. So I got home, drained the tank and filled up again. Currently driving around on cheap fuel, saved loads.

Fairly obvious but you could stop voting for these cunts.

The Germans have been told to take cold showers whilst saying "take that, Putin". That will show him!!

Maybe we just need to riot like the Sri Lankans

We've got a fireplace, so will add to pollution levels etc.

I have been riding to work a lot, but can't really do more than two consecutive days or my legs go cramp mad. That's a seasonal saver mind.

The Mrs will be making more meals from scratch.

Right, some home fucking truths. Tory ideology isn't going to fix this. #ThickLizzie is apparently considering tax cuts because she is incapable of critical thought. A 5% cut in VAT will equal 4% off your energy bills. Clueless. Cuts in tax always benefit those better off the most.

Here's my back of a fag packet solution.

Windfall tax on wholesale energy companies. We need to stop being angry at them. They don't set the market price. However, they are making £billions extra that they didn't expect so take it off them. £24bn will give every household in the UK £1k off their bills. The government can afford to match this given how much they spunked up the wall during the pandemic. So that's £2k off every cunt's energy bills and is a short term solution.

Long term, this isn't going to get any better. It's fair to say that Europe and Russia have burnt their bridges in the international gas trading game so the wholesale price of gas will stay high. I'm not going to explain contracts for difference here (Google it) but offshore wind farms currently being constructed have agreed to sell electricity at a fixed price and that price in the last round of auctions was quite low. Wind farm construction needs to be accelerated and matched with energy storage (I did a masters project on the need for storage 20 fucking years ago, it's not new). This won't reduce the price of gas but will reduce the price of electricity if we are less reliant on burning gas to generate it.

Sadly, you can bet the hole in your arse that the Tories will do none of this. Tax cuts won't help. Additional gas production will not produce anywhere near enough to have any effect on international prices. We are massively fucked with these cunts in charge.

I'm at work more than at home. Even at the weekends I'm hardly at home. I eat at work too. I live too far from work to use any other means of transport than my car. Heating wise I get discounted gas. Not much I can do really to save any extra.

I considered drinking San Miguel instead of Moretti for about 3 minutes. Does that count?

Im not going to, by the way. San Miguel is bobbins.