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[malvolio]

plus depreciation, plus lost interest on capital, plus servicing, plus consumables...

If you want an objective answer, the RAC are saying up to 65ppm for a "standard" petrol car, rather less for an EV....

[malvolio]

I well remember the long arguments PCG had with Osborn to get it from 40ppm to 45ppm, so it is well overdue.

Still at least15pm below the actual costs of course...

[malvolio]

No, two seriously major wins for contractors. It's only HMRC that think they are chasing tax dodgers....

[malvolio]

For comparison, the Arctic Systems case which followed a similar path,was reportedly arond £700k. That was 20 years ago....

[malvolio]

There's a lot more than oil coming through Hormuz, fertilisers being a major one. And America uses a lot of fertiliser......

[malvolio]

British heavy industry in the 70s died because it couldn't compete with other countries' standards. Compare a Morris Marina to the equivalent Toyota for example, or a ship built for around a2/3rds the cost of a Clyde side yard. Not everything you read about Thatcher is even vaguely accurate; she was...

[malvolio]

It's all true, sweetpea.

We didn't have minimum wage legislation

We bought on a local government mortgage scheme just before it closed giving a 95% mortgage. Tte other 5% we had to find ourselves. Nothing o do with right-to-buy.

You clearly have no idea of the...

[malvolio]

Bought a £12,500 ex-council house on a sub-£3k a year salary working a three shift rotation, so "3x salary" doesn't work...

Didn't do university. Did day release/evening class at college but had to stop that when I went on the shift rotation.

We had zero social...

[malvolio]

Having worked and saved and paid taxes for 50 years (and still paying taxes now I'm retired), why should I sacrifice my comfortable, paid-for, spacious house to live in a shoe box for someone else? And get rid of a life's worth of possessions to do so?

OK, that's harsh, but it is reality....

[malvolio]

If it's properly hot, properly seasoned and properly oiled, steel or cast iron pans are non-stick anyway... But IME heating a dry non-stick to a high heat without any oil in it does do real damage. Heating the oil to a high temperature is rather less so....