That bloody Pete Doherty just never stops. In this episode, our antihero, looking like an unbathed, malnourished, and wasted version of Roger Ebert, gives a thumb down to astronomically rising petrol prices:

Sitting outside his country home near Marlborough the Babyshambles frontman gave petrol prices – which soared to 129.9p per litre in parts of the UK at the weekend – two thumbs down. At his nearest petrol station Deans in Marlborough the price of petrol is some of the most expensive in the country. Doherty, 29, spends almost £100 filling up his gas-guzzling 3.6litre XJ6 Sovereign, which does just 20 miles to the gallon.

Well, it looks like we have more in common with penniless Pete than we originally thought. However, Doherty is a man who fails to pay the yearly vehicle tax, and when police inevitably tow the offending vehicles away, Pete doesn’t pay the fine to recover his beloved Jaguar. Instead, the junkie wastrel merely shrugs his shoulders and purchases a different vehicle. In 2006, he went through eight Jaguars in this manner, and, fortunately, the loss of the seventh Jaguar was not without witness:

[I]nstead of paying a fine when it was clamped, he ignored the gold limo and 24 hours later it was hauled off. When he realised it was missing, Doherty flew into a rage. Swigging constantly from a bottle of Jack Daniels and looking as though he hadn’t slept for days, he clambered up a high metal fence. Once over the top, he dropped down into the yard of his favourite second-hand Jaguar dealer and started looking for car number eight. He checked out a gold Jaguar XJS, but didn’t fancy the £2,500 price tag. Instead, he picked a £1,000 metallic grey saloon. The dishevelled singer pulled a pile of cash out of his back pocket and handed it to the salesman, who counted the money while Doherty finished his booze.

With indulgences like the above, as well as the purchase of a £5000 portrait of ex-girlfriend Kate Moss, it’s no wonder Doherty has grown concerned over Babyshambles’ distribution of wealth:

We need to sit down as a band and talk about the future. What’s happening and why, when and who with. Two years of arseing about, we could actually make money out of this job. I’ve just realised people are always saying to me “yeah but you can afford it” and I’m like “what’s making them say that?”

Oh Pete, stop whining and stick to lighting up at anti-smoking benefits, and remember, nobody likes a critic.