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[pgarner]

Originally Posted by aswearing

good point, i would prefer to catch the bus to town but it i extortionate. as a child i paid 30p for a return to town which takes 10 mins each way, but now they charge you £1.65 for a single, thats £3.30 return.
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thats no bad last time a got a bus to go out with mates in another town it was £1.95 its only 4 miles away for me and the wife thats £3.90 a taxi was only £5

[HDi fun]

I think it's the case country wide, we all get stitched up to pay ever more for things that we need in order to live.

I want to know why a very rich person with a nice oil (diesel) powered pleasure boat gets away with red diesel prices for leisure purposes.

What if I drive my car 400 miles purely for fun? Can I have my fuel exempted from excise duty?

No!

OK, so - essential journeys...........

If I drive my car on a Saturday to the local farm where I get my meat and other products (I hate supermarkets, by the way) can that be journey be exempted from excise duty, as, that too, is essential to live.

No!

If I drive my boat (that I don't have, and never will have) across the channel to a French market then will that journey's fuel be exempt from fuel duty?

Answers on a postcard please.

[waynne]

I reckon your average boats 0-60 time of a weekend and 10mpg economy will soon weigh up the advantages.

(80% of these statistics were made up the rest were guessed!)

[HDi fun]

I expect we're looking at more like two mpg in the case of some machinery.

[Pixel]

I have a football field near my house and some old man parked in front of my drive to go watch the game, I was lucky that I saw him park so I was able to get him to move, otherwise If i wanted to leave I couldn't for a good 2 or so hours (assuming he would watch the whole match).

I guess this isn't down to him being old as all ages do this but still...

[pgarner]

thts simple mate a live at an alley that folk park at all the time i was coming out one morning when sumone decided to block te alleyway whgen a openend the window to tell him to shift he said he was only going to be 2 mins "i am only gan to grab a paper" was his exuse am sure a seen his passenger s**t himself as was parked on the oppsisite side of the road when a sopped inches of his door a was so p**sed off that he had stopped seen that i was trying to get out and blocked the alley ( with a space on the other side o the street i maght add) that i made his passenger get out so he could get in the passenger door nd jump across

[oceaness]

Someone down the road my gf lives in has a medium sized flatbed lorry and he seems to think it's acceptable to park it on the pavement opposite my gf's house. Their road isn't very wide to start with.

Even if it's parked there, when I arrive I still park infront of her dropped pavement and block the road off. The way I see it I'm running her around, she LIVES there, therefore it seems only fair that I park in front of her house. Or is being aloud to park in front my gf's house asking to much?

The lorry driver can't really complain as he has to park the lorry accorss the whole pavement to try and keep it out the road which in itself is illegal.

Her family have decided that whoever gets home first is going to park in front of the house so the lorry can't park there anymore.

[HDi fun]

The public highway is not his property, nor yours. It's available to all.

However, considerate use of it is the responsibility of all.

[aswearing]

certain commercial vehicles ar not allowed in built up ares, had the same issue with a hgv, soon shifted when he was awoken by the plod