Fuel prices

[John Keswick 119]

Cut and paste from a email:

 

 

PETROL PRICES - PLEASE READ AND JOIN!!!

 

The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.

 

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

 

We are hitting 114.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 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 90p a LITRE RANGE

 

It's easy to make this happen. Just join this group and get all your FB friends to join or forward as an email to everyone in your address book, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e.. boycott BP and Esso

 

 

[ratattack 111]

Lol the don't buy esso/bp fuel round robin emails have started again, it wont make a rats ass of difference. The same one has been doing the rounds for years with the prices changed. The only way to change it is to change the people in power in the next election, not that many will be voting for ole gordon and his knob of a chancellor anyway.

[John Keswick 119]

 

I wouldnt know, i just read it and thought i would post it for discussion.

 

But if you think about it, if everyone stuck together and did it, it would work...

[TOPPER 1,809]

i hate to tell you but sainsburys , asda, and morrisons fuel is BP they have a deal with bp we draw from shell/esso avonmouth under bp s account

[ratattack 111]

Yup the fuel comes from the same depots and merely gets a name change dependant on where it goes So tbh it will never work bend over and take the shafting like every other motorist if you don't like it then use your vote or move to the arab states i'm afraid

[SHOTGUNSNIPER 47]

I think there is plenty of cheap oil to make petrol Around the Falkland Islands. SGS

[IanB 0]

We already pay the highest fuel duty in europe.... Our fuel prices are the cheapest in europe, once the government slaps the tax on it rockets... I'm past caring anyway, this country is a shambles...

 

 

[undisputed 1,664]

Folk tend to forget it was the Tories that introduced the duty on fuel in the first place. I dont know where this notion came from that the tories are the saviours of this country....its a bit like the oil companies theyre all in it together

[rob.i 26]

wont make a difference bend over time

[Dakaras 3]

Self employed and like many havent put my prices up for years, last 5 years has seen me going from £40 a tank to £60 ...I wish there was something I could do other than vote the feckers out

[The one 8,503]

Thats older than moses been doing the rounds for a while

[clint 45]

You government can stick the fuel up the A$$ at that cost ! Fk them , i no use ! Greedy bastd

 

if you do same ,& you friend, it drop in price by weekend.

[PeakOil 352]

 

People would do well to remember who is devaluing sterling, next time they appear in the media crowing on about making the right decisions to help hard working families through the down turn that started in America. Oh and don't forget our glorious leaders are putting fuel duty up on the 1st April 2010, so come Thursday fuel will be even more expensive.

[chimp 299]

lol christ i saw that in last fuel strikes years ago , 1.114!!! i wish its 1.20 round here