In article , Bill Wright wrote:
It's the poor who suffer. Fuel poverty is going to be a very serious
issue if we carry on like this. I can seriously envisage kids having to
wash in cold water and eat undercooked food if things carry on like
this. Possibly a solution would be fuel tokens. It's no good giving
people more money for fuel because some of them would just spend it on
fags, booze, clothes for themselves, and Sky.

I still have my tokens from the big fuel shortage of the 1970s. They look
just like the wartime ones I remember my parents having to use in the
1950s. I wonder if I could use them again?

Rod.
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Roderick Stewart wrote:

I still have my tokens from the big fuel shortage of the 1970s. They look
just like the wartime ones I remember my parents having to use in the
1950s. I wonder if I could use them again?

I suspect that if we get to the point where they have to be issued
again, they'll have to be redesigned to include holograms this time around.

On 25/01/2012 09:37, Andy Burns wrote:
Roderick Stewart wrote:

I still have my tokens from the big fuel shortage of the 1970s. They look
just like the wartime ones I remember my parents having to use in the
1950s. I wonder if I could use them again?

I suspect that if we get to the point where they have to be issued
again, they'll have to be redesigned to include holograms this time around.

And a computer system designed by EDS that will never be finished, never
quite work, and eventually be abandoned when its ten years late and 20bn
over budget!


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John.

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