reduce price of petrol campaign

[P15UL T]

just thought i would pass this on

 

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

 

We are hitting £108.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced

with paying £1.10 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

 

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain day

campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just

laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't

continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an

inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT,whoever

thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

 

Please read it and join in!

 

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to

think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive

action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place

not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we

consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price

of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not

purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

Here's the idea:

 

For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest

oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.

 

 

If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their

prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to

follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of

Esso and BP petrol buyers. It's really simple to do!!

 

Now, don't wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how

simple it is to reach millions of people!!

 

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at

least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten

more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the

message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over

THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and

pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been

contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... ..

 

THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

 

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.(and not

buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this

email out to ten more people within one day of receipt,

all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next

8days!!! Acting together we can make a difference If this makes

sense to you, please pass this message on.

 

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

 

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your

petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott

BP and Esso

[Ekona]

That's been doing the round for at least the last three years, and it'll never make the blindest bit of difference. It's the tax that's the issue for us, not the cost of the petrol itself.

[P15UL T]

i hadnt heard it before but was thinking that the tax made up nearly two thirds of the price of fuel ?

[tmJak]

The tax on a litre is probably more than 69p anyway.

 

Think the other problem is that people are too selfish to stick with it and if the price dropped on BP's fuel by 2p then people would cave in and use BP again. It's the same with road tax, if everyone refused to pay for road tax, how could the government possibly enforce it? Some people would inevitably have their cars crushed but eventually the government would stop being a**eholes. A majority of people won't take the risk tho, a curse of being British. Americans wouldn't stand for any of it. . .

[Ekona]

Exactly. If the government reduced the tax on the fuel (and don't forget, every time that the physical cost of the fuel itself goes up the tax goes up twice as much!), then we could start paying sensible money for our fuel which would in turn lead to cheaper food in our supermarkets, which would mean that we would have more spare to pay our mortgages with or buy luxury goods, which would lead to a kick start in the economy and we wouldn't have to worry about this credit crunch malarky.

 

 

However, getting the government to understand all that is another matter...

[Stew]

This advertisement was brought to you by the kind people of Shell..........

[funkymofo]

69p a litre! hahahaha

 

If this actually worked as well as it possibly ever could then I would be very surprised if it got below £1 per litre - which I would consider to be a very good result!

 

The government will continue to tax us heavily and hide behind their "we care about the environment" smokescreen.

[AndySpak]

Don't most of us use Shell V-Power anyway?

 

Kind of wasted on Zed drivers...

[H5]

Exactly. If the government reduced the tax on the fuel (and don't forget, every time that the physical cost of the fuel itself goes up the tax goes up twice as much!), then we could start paying sensible money for our fuel which would in turn lead to cheaper food in our supermarkets, which would mean that we would have more spare to pay our mortgages with or buy luxury goods, which would lead to a kick start in the economy and we wouldn't have to worry about this credit crunch malarky.

 

 

However, getting the government to understand all that is another matter...

 

Couldn't agree more. Morons.

[davej]

these "stick it to the big companies" emails always make me laugh, cos if you stand outside any esso or bp fuel distribution terminal, and watch all the supermarket tankers loading out of there!

 

and as for getting the government to listen to reason, common sense and above all the people that put them there.......

 

 

Dave

[RobD7]

The answer to this shambles is those who keep voting labour, stop!

[Rob_Quads]

OK So we don't buy from ESSO or BP - get it from all the others like Tescos etc. of which a majority actually buy thier petrol from ESSO & BP so its pointless

[martinmac]

BP have no refineries in Britain anymore. They use their buying power and long term contract to purchase product at a good rate. If they do not need their quota they can sell it on at a small profit and still make money. As long as the volume consumed reamins constant they are ok.

 

As has been said its the government that makes the big money, they benefit from duty on petrol and also increased insome from the high price of north sea oil.

 

Pressure on the government is the only way forward,

[Stew]

Labour suck ass.

[martinmac]

Labour suck ass.

 

I am about as big a Maggie fan as you can get, cant understand how this lot ever got in

[Stew]

I was just a tot when Maggie was in!

[martinmac]

Just to put this in context when considering the impact on food and other prices as a result of the increase in fuel costs.

 

The price of Marine Gas Oil has gone up about 600% in six years. This has a very significant on anything shipped by sea. Containerships traditionally ran on a high speed service where arrival time was the overiding issue. All those bits from Japan are going up accordingly

[breay]

Just going off on a slight tangent, Super unleaded from Tesco is costing us 114 a litre at the moment in our area, ive always used super or Vpower but is there really any point for us zed owners? seeing as the ECU gives us no increases!? I know it helps to clear carbon deposits etc but surely we would be better off buying the cheaper grade unleaded and using V power every now and then???

 

What do you guys think?

[xStric9x]

I use tescos all the time

[martinmac]

Just going off on a slight tangent, Super unleaded from Tesco is costing us 114 a litre at the moment in our area, ive always used super or Vpower but is there really any point for us zed owners? seeing as the ECU gives us no increases!? I know it helps to clear carbon deposits etc but surely we would be better off buying the cheaper grade unleaded and using V power every now and then???

 

What do you guys think?

 

Think the last time I saw this covered the thinking was that the V Power etc gives better engine performance and after much debate the increase in efficiency when balanced against the higher price made using higher grade about 1 to 2p per litre the better option.

[H5]

Just going off on a slight tangent, Super unleaded from Tesco is costing us 114 a litre at the moment in our area, ive always used super or Vpower but is there really any point for us zed owners? seeing as the ECU gives us no increases!? I know it helps to clear carbon deposits etc but surely we would be better off buying the cheaper grade unleaded and using V power every now and then???

 

What do you guys think?

 

Think the last time I saw this covered the thinking was that the V Power etc gives better engine performance and after much debate the increase in efficiency when balanced against the higher price made using higher grade about 1 to 2p per litre the better option.

 

That is my finding.