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Quote: Griff @ January 29 2011, 12:58 PM GMTI find it quite hilarious that although you know nothing about this guy or his business, you feel qualified to pronounce on his price point with supermarkets.
I brew beer and I know the cost of ingredients and equipment. I also have a friend who works for a brewery and I know what they charge for their beers. All I'm saying is that his beers must certainly cost more than 4p to manufacture, so if that's all he's charging he's losing money and that's not a healthy business practice.
Quote: Griff @ January 29 2011, 1:04 PM GMTMeanwhile here's a story about his Christmas beer being banned by idiot Americans.
Idiot New Yorkers. There's a distinction. 
I buy a lot of my beers in Waitrose so I shall look out for the Ridgeway brewery. (EDIT though I suspect I am out of the catchment area). In fairness to the supermarkets (did I really say that?) they charge a lot less per bottle than independents - I doubt Waitrose really sell for £2 per bottle. But that it is my beef with the supermarkets as "wealth creators", they do not make their profits by charging excessive margins, they do it by using their buying power to force down costs, thereby weakening the sectors of the economy that supply to them, and by putting competitors out of business and generally stifling enterprise. As consumers we benefit because we spend less, but by squeezing suppliers (and employees) the supermarkets are putting less money back into the economy, so there is less money available to be spent.
I used to sell homemade lemonade from my parents' driveway; can't remember how much I charged, but it was certainly more than 4p a bottle.
Yes, ICI pay quite well.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ January 29 2011, 1:00 PM GMT
Likewise with the larficon thing but I wanted to do one with a bank in front of the tree but am not very ITy. Okay, not at all ITy.
There he is, thingy.
I read the other day that one company is already interested in buying a forest where it has applied for a licence for oil extraction, having been allowed to do tests which show there is oil underneath it.
I am strongly suspecting that this rapidly growing trend in inshore oil extraction is the real driving force behind our Gvt's proposed plans, who see very big bucks to be made by selling off oil rich plots to the giants.
A little tinkering with the forestery bylaws will allow this, I understand, where as it is nigh on impossible to allow the commercial extraction on open greenbelt.
In a big forest they'd be able to get the really heavy ugly looking gear in and really suck that oil out, with the rest of the forest acting as the perfect environmentally friendly barrier. I bet money on this being the case, those Conservatives are always up to this kind of thing.
Can anybody confirm or disprove this?
In a reply in The Guardian website today someone said that when this was proposed for Scotland's forests, the Scottish Parliament threw it out.
Actively campaigning against the sell off, and voting against it, were Danny Alexander and Ming Campbell who both voted this week in favour of the English sell off!
If true, then the block should be made ready on Tower Hill.
You really do need an English parliament.
I would go for simply giving Scotland independence - after all we've had all the oil now.
Quote: Timbo @ February 5 2011, 11:41 PM GMTI would go for simply giving Scotland independence - after all we've had all the oil now.
And exhausted their shortbread reserves. 
I've signed. *thumbs up*
Quote: Tim Walker @ February 5 2011, 11:44 PM GMTAnd exhausted their shortbread reserves.
You will NEVER exhaust our shortbread reserves. We have them buried in bunkers deep below the ground. 
Yes!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12488847
What a vacuous and pathetic 'government' we have running this country !
OUT, NOW !