The AA Complaining Again

[dellzeqq]

Why are some on here determined to make it a case of "us and them" on the roads? The vast majority of cyclists that I know are also drivers, myself included. I would say the price of petrol is already way too high, thanks to the tax on it. If you really think that motorists are out there driving for the hell of it, then you are sadly mistaken.

really? Explain, if you will, the preponderance of overweight, oversized chromebarges on our streets

 

[dellzeqq]

????? I have been pressurised into that choice, precisely by fuel prices! So I feel every right to whine about them.

governments have been taxing petrol for a very long time. You made a choice, and it's cost you. There's no shame in that - we've all done the same in different ways - but there really isn't any point in complaining about it

 

[dellzeqq]

One person living there means it is populated . 91mph is a stiff breeze try 124+ mph (not gusting) strong enough to throw my mondeo 2 crofts away like a tumble weed. So I still challenge someone to ride and get their family weekly shopping on a cycle and do a daily commute. Don't take my word for it, speak to anyone who has lived in the Outer Hebs about the weather.

sorry - you live in the Outer Hebrides and think that the tax regime for a country that is largely urban should be founded on your predicament?

 

[dellzeqq]

Exactly the same principle surely applies to those smug individuals on here who have made choices with regards to cycle use. One size does not fit all!

the difference is that we're not whining about it

 

[dellzeqq]

So - to all who are anti-car and hence anti anything using fuel; what did you do to get your bike? Walk and swim to Taiwan or Germany or the States? Get real - the world needs transport; otherwise it's back to village huts and Gee Gees.

they came in a great big truck. One from Italy, one from West London and one from (I think) Scotland. And the fuel in the truck was taxed. And I was happy to contribute to the tax.

 

[dellzeqq]

Yawn.

Typical of the tripe trotted out by the greens. Take away the motor industry and it's products with all the related employment and tax paying benefits of manufacture and use and then see what sort of ecomomy you end up with. Somewhere level with Cambodia or Vietnam I should think..

really? That would explain why Venice is so desperately, desperately poor. Actually......if you made car ownership more expensive, and ensured that cars lasted longer, household costs would go down and the balance of payments would improve out of sight.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yawn.

Typical of the tripe trotted out by the greens. Take away the motor industry and it's products with all the related employment and tax paying benefits of manufacture and use and then see what sort of ecomomy you end up with. Somewhere level with Cambodia or Vietnam I should think.

Even the Labour Party at it's most left wing understood the importance of industry in general and the car industry in particular. Only the middle class left who have mostly spent their lives in the public sector don't get it.

T.W.A. tea or would you prefer coffee? I'm mIddle class by any definition, less than 10 per cent of my working life in the public sector, and that was 30 years ago. What an lame argument.

 

[Brandane]

the difference is that we're not whining about it

You don't own a car; why would you "whine" about petrol prices? Or are you saying that the smug individuals who have made their choices with regards to cycle use are not whining - about cycle use?!! Or more likely, have you taken my quote completely out of context?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

You don't own a car; why would you "whine" about petrol prices? Or are you saying that the smug individuals who have made their choices with regards to cycle use are not whining - about cycle use?!! Or more likely, have you taken my quote completely out of context?

I (part) own a car. I'm not whining like a spoilt child about petrol prices. I'm asking for them to be increased. at which point your argument collapses in a heap of burnt hydro=carbons.

 

[dellzeqq]

You don't own a car; why would you "whine" about petrol prices? Or are you saying that the smug individuals who have made their choices with regards to cycle use are not whining - about cycle use?!! Or more likely, have you taken my quote completely out of context?

I'm not whining about anything. I get around by bike, bus and train. Happy days!

 

[Brandane]

I (part) own a car. I'm not whining like a spoilt child about petrol prices. I'm asking for them to be increased. at which point your argument collapses in a heap of burnt hydro=carbons.

You must be very well off then. Lucky you.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

You must be very well off then. Lucky you.

Yeah, sorry about that. Worked hard, made good.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm not whining about anything. I get around by bike, bus and train. Happy days!

Funny that. Second that. Spent the whole day travelling in exactly the same ways, AND drank too much prosecco. 'Need' a car my bum.

 

[col]

Yeah, sorry about that. Worked hard, made good.

Lucky you.

 

[Brandane]

Yeah, sorry about that. Worked hard, made good.

I really don't feel the need to go into too much detail on here with people I wouldn't pass the time of day with otherwise, however I would like to point out that I am approaching 50 and until 11 months ago I had never been out of work. I chose to live where I am because it was near to the job I did for 19 years. Unfortunately, ill health got the better of me and I could no longer do that job. I made changes and took up other forms of employment. Not as high stress or well paid; but work and a wage never the less. Since being made redundant last April, there hasn't been much happening on the work front.

So please, PLEASE, DO NOT come on here and preach to me about how well off you are through hard work; and that I should somehow share your wish of higher fuel prices which are preventing me from considering work outwith 25 miles from home. I keep saying it, but everyones circumstances are different. I find myself in the position I am in NOT through choice, but through ill health, and your comments are not appreciated. Did I mention "smug"? A few more appropriate descriptions spring to mind as well, but as this is a family site I better keep them to myself.