desperately seeking discounts

Posts Tagged ‘oil’

0.01p off

In faux cheap chic on 16 October, 2008 at 5:30 pm
life changing

life changing

Asda and Morrisons are pulling the old 99p trick, except in a stingier way. A litre of petrol will now cost you 99.9p.

It’s an effective publicity stunt: que vaguely homoerotic pictures of burly truck driver types sticking nozzles into petrol holes.

above pic from lukeroberts’ flickr photostream

over a barrel

In bill me...later on 16 October, 2008 at 5:18 pm
we'll have to syphon

syphon here

So you know how your gas and lecky bills got obscenely high because oil went up to, like, a gazillion dollars (well, $150) a barrel? Well, now oil is only $70 a barrel and here PovertyPorn we’re still selling ourselves to pay for 1 hour of central heating in the morning (otherwise it’s too cold to get out of bed).

Why? Read the rest of this entry »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.