Diesel Drivers

For years diesel drivers have been sitting in their cars smugly looking down (or across) at petrol drivers for who, until very recently, the costs of running a car have been significantly higher. The cost of buying and servicing a diesel car has always been more than a petrol car, but the cheap fuel and higher mpg has always offset this extra cost. Not any more - the spiralling cost of diesel fuel and the increased fuel efficiency in petrol cars now means that while you lot drive round in your noisy, slow tractors, we petrol heads can cruise past you safe in the knowledge that the grin has been well and truly wiped from your face.

And hybrid drivers don't get off lightly either. It was recently shown (albeit on Top Gear, which is an increasingly self-indulgent and contrived programme these days) that driving a hybrid car at full pelt (which, admittedly, is not that fast), against a BMW M3 at the same speed, showed that the hybrid car was actually less fuel efficient. To quote a Jeremy Kyle chav on hearing that her 17 year old boyfriend's DNA test shows he is the father of her sixth child - "In your face!".