Why do we drive?

Are motorist the most persecuted people around? Our local council have just introduced a new parking enforcement vehicle, nothing new there you say accept this one is fitted with a camera mounted on the roof that will drive around the local area looking for parking offenses. When it finds a parking offense it will photograph the offense, send you a photograph of the offense and charge you £70 for the privilege. OK so the parking in some area is bad, but I bet it won't be enforcing parking regulation where it is needed like out side a couple of local school where the pavement and junctions themselves are used as parking zones. The police have given up trying to enforce the law (they were there to stop obstruction not the parking as the council look after that) and when they were there they booked one car for parking at a bus stop, problem was the buses stopped going up that road 3 years prevoius.

The council are not being honest, they were reported in the local paper as saying they have a new vehicle, singular, funny how I have seen three of them in the area for the past month or so.

Now we have fuel prices going back up again, fortunately the local petrol station is one of the cheapest in the area, unfortunately it is also a scammer's paradise, they have had the bank machine scammed and the local paper was full of reports last week of local people having their card being scammed in the petrol station.

Once upon a time diesel was cheaper than petrol, then a couple of years ago diesel was about 12p dearer than petrol, now currently at the above station it is 1p different (in favour of petrol). When I was up country in the week I saw diesel for £1.08 per litre (and it was not a motorway services), I filled up at £1.04 per litre, the local above is £1.009 a litre

Then we had Jeremy Clarkson passing comment of the traffic in our area, I would totally agree with him. I can drive 38 miles from work towards home in 30 minutes, it then takes me another 20 minutes to do the final 6 miles. If you want to get to "a" to "b" then you have to take the back roads which ends up adding more miles to the trip. The wife can get a bus to and from work, the bus stop from home is within 100mtr of our house and probably the same at work, So why does it take over an hours to get the bus home. Talking of buses, they are frequently late, often they are cancelled, the bus driver drive aggressively, don't bother to even try to get in the bus stop just stop anywhere within a 100yd radius of the bus stop and the best bit of all, some of them can't speak in English!!

I'm starting to rant , so I better stop...........