Tony Bryer muttered:

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:09:57 +0000 Gropius Riftwynde wrote :
If it cost you £4 a mile to travel, would you use teh car toi
opo diwn te shops to get a newspaper?

And if you were a pensioner, with no local shop?

If transport was £4 a mile people in villages would have kept using
their village shops so they wouldn't have closed.

As they are now if they still have one, when I first moved up here the
village shop was hardly ever busy, but ever since petrol went to over 90p a
litre it's been packed.