Calton doesn't mind going the extra mile or seven to get cheaper fuel however he has discovered that, at the moment, there is no difference in price between Broadford and Shiel Bridge which means that
a) his two independent local sources on petrol prices were wrong or
b) the Broadford garage is not passing on the 5p island fuel subsidy to customers or
c) mainland filling stations have had to cut their prices to match those on Skye or else face losing business.
Calton's money (quite literally) is on b) since he had to pay 144.9p per litre of diesel today, however he may be wrong. He may also be mistaken in thinking that dualling the A9 is not a priority - having driven the length of it from Perth to John O' Groats recently and had a couple of near misses on single carriageway stretches with oncoming overtaking idiots, perhaps upgrading to dual carriageway is not such a bad idea after all.
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