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Subject:Re: We are all being ripped off
Date:Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:22 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From:rosenstiel@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel)
Newsgroups:uk.gov.local
In article <bnil93$6vo$1@newsreaderg1.core.theplanet.net>, 
alex@skidrow301.freeserve.co.uk (§kid®ow301²°°³) wrote:

> 
> > <alex@skidrow301.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > "motoring is cheaper in real terms than it's ever been"   good joke
> >
> > How so ??
> >
> > -- 
> > Mike Pellatt
> > Just use R(eply) (from a standards-compliant newsreader)
> > to email me - address will be valid for a few months after
> > this posting.
> 
> well if the cost of M.O.T / Road Tax / Fuel ect are all going up at a
> ridiculas rate ,
> how can you say ""motoring is cheaper in real terms than it's ever been"

They aren't. Fuel is cheaper than when I got my present car, in 2000. My 
current car uses less fuel than the previous one.

-- 
Colin Rosenstiel