CreamMeAgain said: As irrelevant as this is to the conversation, I need to get in on the gas price convo. Gas prices are just as expensive here in the US. Under $4 is only in a few places that are not as expensive to live. But it's $6.59 for gas here in Cali, and it's just as expensive in all the larger cities all over the country. And as far as politics goes, the whole world is in a bad political state, and this is why we need to distract ourselves with as many pies to the face as possible to have a few moments of blissful fun and relief from the dread
Note when UK people talk about gas they don't mean gasoline - we call that "petrol", Gas here is methane, which runs our central heating boilers (I think you call them furnaces) and is used in gas cookers. Petrol for cars in the UK is currently around $9 per gallon, but the big increase has been in domestic energy (gas and electricity), the combined bills for which have really shot up because of price spikes on the wholesale markets caused by the war in Ukraine. Here at the Hall we're largely independent but there's mains gas in some of the estate gatehouses, and the South Lodge's domestic energy bills have gone from £60 a month to £260 a month, and may well go higher.
Plus just today, in a humiliating climb-down for the new Prime Minister (many of her own MPs are now saying "she's toast"), the new new chancellor of the exchequer has axed allmost all of her tax cuts, re-instated planned tax rises, and scaled back the energy bill protection that had previously been promised from two years to just six months - just enough to get through this Winter basically. After which the South Lodge bill may well rise to £500 per month if wholesale energy prices don't drop.
CreamMeAgain said: As irrelevant as this is to the conversation, I need to get in on the gas price convo. Gas prices are just as expensive here in the US. Under $4 is only in a few places that are not as expensive to live. But it's $6.59 for gas here in Cali, and it's just as expensive in all the larger cities all over the country. And as far as politics goes, the whole world is in a bad political state, and this is why we need to distract ourselves with as many pies to the face as possible to have a few moments of blissful fun and relief from the dread
Note when UK people talk about gas they don't mean gasoline - we call that "petrol", Gas here is methane, which runs our central heating boilers (I think you call them furnaces) and is used in gas cookers. Petrol for cars in the UK is currently around $9 per gallon, but the big increase has been in domestic energy (gas and electricity), the combined bills for which have really shot up because of price spikes on the wholesale markets caused by the war in Ukraine. Here at the Hall we're largely independent but there's mains gas in some of the estate gatehouses, and the South Lodge's domestic energy bills have gone from £60 a month to £260 a month, and may well go higher.
Plus just today, in a humiliating climb-down for the new Prime Minister (many of her own MPs are now saying "she's toast"), the new new chancellor of the exchequer has axed allmost all of her tax cuts, re-instated planned tax rises, and scaled back the energy bill protection that had previously been promised from two years to just six months - just enough to get through this Winter basically. After which the South Lodge bill may well rise to £500 per month if wholesale energy prices don't drop.
We could go for a whole lot of those, because don't forget your pants actually what we call trousers
I wanna be messy
9/5/24, 3:21pm: This post won't bump the thread to the top.
Love you, too
