[Misc] Poverty just now

[Guinness Boy]

To be fair we were locked in to a fuel price tariff for the office and our chapel which has 18 months to run so I can’t really comment on that.

Re the cars, again I’m fortunate in that I went out and bought the first hybrid funeral fleet on the South Coast 18 months ago, so with the cars being part electric our petrol bills were always going to be different.

I‘m lucky enough having been doing it 35 years and as a small business with a specific model our standard funeral prices have not gone up since January 2020, I’m going to try and keep this policy for as long as possible.

Good man (and slightly off topic you once gave a good friend of our family an excellent send off in quite tragic circumstances so highly recommended).

But you can see how anyone who has not locked in their energy, uses petrol or diesel as part of their fleet or needs to use anything produced in Russia or Ukraine such as cooking oil or wheat will have extensively higher costs? Not to mention that China is pursuing an idiotic zero covid policy that regularly sees factories closed or reduced. This also reduces supply. iPhones were the latest to suffer supply issues, which you might say is a luxury (unless you want to be able to get into a Brighton match) but much of their very cheap manufacturing is also producing less these days.