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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

Yes, very much so.


I have yet to work out this osession with 'growth'. We're on an island. We can't grow forever.

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Smokebelching,CO2 making,child murdering planet raping,granny mugging,politically incorrect globally warming (or is it climate changing now it's getting colder?)thug.
That's what the government want you to believe of me. If they get back in I'm emigrating.

I take great exception to the comment from HUgh Fearnley-Whittingstall whom "expressed delight that this might spell the end for McDonald’s, and presumably also for its gormless employees and awful customers "

Everyone, or most, have to start somewhere!

I started by sweeping the floors at Woolworths in 1973/4 after school to afford my very first cycle at age 16. If I did a Saturday on top, my take home pay was £14 per week.

I didn't have a father to buy me things or take me on holidays to Spain and although others may disagree, I am neither gormless and when I use MD I am not awful!

Pompous b d!

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

We didn't just have the busiest shopping month in twenty years. People met this news with scepticism with good reason, mainly because that the rocketing inflation is skewing the figures. I've read a few economist views on this whom eloquently pointed this out.

I'm sorry to say but this isn’t going to be an easy recession, infact everything points towards it going to be damn painful. I'd say we're facing a long painful slowdown. We're only 6-8 months into the credit crunch and already two banks have gone to the wall (northern rock and Bradford and Bingley), masses of shops closing, construction firms bankrupt and the housing market collapsing.

What we've seen so far only is firms with huge dependency on credit but backed by little capital falling first, but this will only keep going and going.

I also wouldn't count on a quick recovery because the moment people have been warning about is arriving. The first stage of the baby boomers have finally reached their sixties and times are going to get tough from now on in. The next crisis we've got on our hands won’t be a birth or unemployment crisis, it’s going to be a retirement crisis.

ah yes, good old sneering snobbery holding society back as ever. I too loath muckdonalds, but there's a snobbish glee there I can't connect with.

as for the downturn, going by my schedule and other tradesmen I talk to, people certainally are reigning in spending. The other day I had two days of work booked in.... this time last year it was 2 months & I was contemplating taking a lad on.

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Fear is a weapon of mass distraction