The French are so calm.

[Workingman]

The French are so calm.

Boy did I get that wrong! The events of the weekend, so far, have prompted warnings of a state of emergency being imposed.

[Kaz]

I vaguely remember the student riots of '68, so there was always a chance it would turn nasty.

[Workingman]

Me too.

It was the final year of real school, exam time, before going up the 6th and there was plenty of sitting around in the library, refectory or hall watching the news, listening to radio, reading the papers, and discussing things French.

These people were 'of our age' and we so wanted to be on the Champs or at the Sorbonne or Nanterre, coz the times they were a changin'.

Ah, the naivety of youth in full bloom.

[Suff]

Hmmm, Mrs S crosses over tonight and is heading home tomorrow. We've both just come south from a wedding in Tayside. I've had a quick look at the news roundup and sent her a WhatsApp to fill up before she crosses. They're starting to target the refineries again and fuel stations are starting to run short. She, also, has a yellow vest on the dash.

At present the support is still around 75% for the Gilet Jaunes. Macron is going to lose this one if he doesn't start making concessions. Fast.

[Workingman]

I read somewhere that it is going up again on Jan 1st by 6.9 cents.

[Suff]

I paid £1.52.9 at Scotch Corner services for Diesel yesterday. The weekend before last I saw €1.729 on the Autoroute.... Although locally it is around €1.39 to €1.49.

After the last crash in prices where the price of a barrel of oil dropped by 2/3 but fuel prices dropped by less than 1/3 I said that within 20 years it would be €2 per litre as Oil prices rose again. Because how could they afford not to when they had baked in so much tax and profits when oil was cheap?

We are well on the way with that journey and oil is heading for $100 per barrel again.

All we need is an EV with a 600 mile range that can charge 90% in 30 minutes and a charging network. Manufactured in volume. Then there will be lots of highly interesting fallout. Like grids going down, local substations being overwhelmed, taxes falling through the floor and ordinary homeowners having to pick up the tab.

Aint life going to be fun