Jeremy Clarkson lands jet fuel dig amid UK ‘fuel crisis’

In recent weeks, prices soared and fluctuated with several pumps being closed up and down the country, including Oxfordshire.

This saw Oxford City Council leader Susan Brown describe the situation as a “fuel crisis”, warning of the financial impacts.

Similarly, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned last week that Europe has “six weeks’ supply of fuel left”.

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Now, Oxfordshire resident and TV presenter Mr Clarkson has waded in with a little dig during his latest column in The Sunday Times.

Speaking about his recent trip to Miami in the United States, the 66-year-old joked that he took the trip while there was still fuel left.

“And so, while Britain still has a dribble of jet fuel, I thought I’d pop to Miami to have a look for myself,” wrote Mr Clarkson.

In the article, the farmer praises the American city for a number of reasons, stating how it’s superior to life in the UK currently.

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He wrote: “Miami feels like it’s been plugged into the mains, and I was coming home to a country where the roads look like they’ve been attacked by badgers, the police are useless, the taxes are ridiculous, the benefits are worse, the exhibits in every art gallery are covered in soup, the harbours are full of statues and the prime minister doesn’t know what a woman is (clue: it’s the sex of the person who’s going to replace you).”

Mr Clarkson is set to return to screens across the world soon with the upcoming and much-anticipated fifth series of Clarkson’s Farm.

The Prime Video documentary, filmed at his Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, originally debuted in 2021 to gushing reviews.

Three further seasons have followed, with this fifth edition having wrapped filming last September and is expected to be released next month.