Petrol prices

[Wobba]

I don't normally forward stuff like this, but thought it may be a good idea:

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it. I personally would rather the prices went up and got the poor and old people off of the roads – but hey, that’s just me.

We are hitting 106.9 p 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
a ggressive 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 on me 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

[thelynx]

it'll never happen

[stevie_b]

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

Yeah, like that is going to happen. Tax on fuel currently works out at about 66p a litre, and even accounting for the VAT component dropping with the fuel price (if the fuel companies and garages provided it free it would still cost 60p in tax) I can't see the fuel companies getting the stuff out of the ground, processing it and delivering it out to garages and selling it for a few pence per litre. The only way petrol prices are going to drop significantly is if the tax regime changes.

[bluenose]

I was just about to post this
We have a Total garage directly opposite an Esso garage so it wont take much of an effort being as i always use the Total garage anyway.

[Lunner]

No point, its come up loads of times befor,ew its the goverment that we need to be targeting, they are driving up the prices of fuel, the petrol stations make next to **** all, why do you think the shops are getting bigger and bigger in petrol stations?

[titcharoony]

i wrk part time ata petty station - total infact. we make an average of about 1p on a litre profit at the point of sale. mars bars n fags is where the profits at! haha