Petrol prices

[Guest MOLLY]

Got this email today....can only be worth a try???

 

 

 

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it We are hitting 95p a litre insome areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 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 marketplace 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 whimp 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 (30x 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 toten 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 toten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! 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.

[DiStuRBeD 0]

lol, u get those emails too hey

[IanB 0]

Its not the oil companies its the government with their mad tax they put on the petrol......

[Guest pete evans]

i thought most of the price was tax. other countries pay 69p or less already probably pay less for fags beer etc etc etc. the nhs is a big sponge for all our taxes and cannot continue in its current form unless there are further tax increases.

[ChrisJones 7,975]

The advice is sound but it's getting 20+ million motorists to do it all on the same day.

 

The Yanks do it quite a bit and their solidarity is the reason they pay f**k all at the pumps.

[Guest Dave]

Start thinking more about who you vote for!!! I was in Cyprus recnetly and only paying 14p per litre of derv!!!!!

 

Dave

[Billyborder 0]

Thg biggest part of the price rises is tax going into this governments big black hole.

I've just spent nearly 6 weeks abroad. In that six weeks petrol has gone up 6p a litre here. In Spain over the same period it has gone up 1.4p a litre now reaching the giddy heights of approx 70p a litre and they are not happy!

The government are loving the price of crude oil going up as it's lining their pockets with yet more of our hard earned cash.

The government need to put a cap on the tax they receive from fuel sales - such as no tax over a certain price - then the rising oil prices would not hit the man in the street so severely.

[Nipper 0]

BP.......

[ChrisJones 7,975]

Thg biggest part of the price rises is tax going into this governments big black hole.

I've just spent nearly 6 weeks abroad. In that six weeks petrol has gone up 6p a litre here. In Spain over the same period it has gone up 1.4p a litre now reaching the giddy heights of approx 70p a litre and they are not happy!

The government are loving the price of crude oil going up as it's lining their pockets with yet more of our hard earned cash.

The government need to put a cap on the tax they receive from fuel sales - such as no tax over a certain price - then the rising oil prices would not hit the man in the street so severely.

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As long as the British public say f**k all we'll continue to get screwed... The British public are reknown for not complaining... at least not to where it counts.