The rise in Oil Heating Oil (Kerosene) is going to be problematic. Why, I hear you ask? well unlike other fuel / energy Gas and Electric - you pay in advance and generally you future buy 3 to 6 months worth and it isn't a monthly in arrears transaction. In my case it has gone from around 55p +VAT at 5% per litre and you have to order a minimum of 500 litres. In a couple of weeks since the Iran conflict it has risen to £1.34 +5% per litre!
Considering I get just over £1,000 per month for my pension to fill 500 litres would take around 70% of that in one hit. Sure it will last me 3 months maybe but consider that just last month it would have been 28% of my pension and you can see what an impact this will have.
Ah ha I hear you say but the Government are going to put £53 Million into a pot so we can be helped out. Yes but I'd probably have to be on some form of benefit to get any assistance so it's probably not going to happen. Bring back Covid lock down when it was 18p a litre and we could fill our socks LOL No, not really but look at the jump in price.
Anyway, I suppose it is lucky it is coming into Spring and Summer when we use less. I do feel sorry for those who's budgets are shot to pieces by this conflict though. If only we had our own resources in the UK? Wait, what? You poured concrete into the well heads, blew up the power stations and raised taxes to the point where it was economical to supply our won fuel and you stopped any further exploration deeming it better to buy the stuff extracted from the very same fields via Norway.
Foot shooting in extremis by successive politicians / governments who clamber for our votes. Complete tossers the lot of them. Luckily though, they aren't affected by their own decisions!
No comments:
Post a Comment