rant Fuel prices

[John B]

First of all appologies if this has already been posted however I will post it again as it really is quite clever if it works and if like minded car clubs etc follow this easy idea who knows it might make a difference !!!!!

I cannot verify all the facts and figures and feel that the overall target price per litre is a bit optomistic !

 

 

We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 2.00 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

[jamesmark]

This is the tho old Ariston adverts, on and on and on and on and on. Or even the Sctoch VHS tapes adverts. A repost going on and on and not fading away.

 

REPOST!!!!!

[DaveSupTT]

I read about this about a yr ago, in one of those chain emails. and yes, its been on here at least twice. Sorry but you may get flamed by the repost brigade

:repost:

[John B]

so shoot me down ! I realise it probably has been posted previously thats why I appologised in the first place but as the fuel prices are rising all the time just thought it was worth a reminder !

[jamesmark]

so shoot me down ! I realise it probably has been posted previously thats why I appologised in the first place but as the fuel prices are rising all the time just thought it was worth a reminder !

 

I think it was Thorin that posted about how stupid this email is,

 

Supermarkets buy their fuel from mainstream companies such as shell, Esso, BP, so it is not really going to make one tiny bit of difference as they will still get their money through other companies forecourts.

[michael]

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4793.html

[spartan]

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4793.html

 

That is a great article and makes a lot of sense; some might mutter 'conspiracy theory' but it looks like plain profiteering to me (greed) - good find!

[michael]

That is a great article and makes a lot of sense; some might mutter 'conspiracy theory' but it looks like plain profiteering to me (greed) - good find!

 

Have a browse through the crude oil section on there and you'll find more of the same along with suggestions that that price will simply rise to a certain level, way above what it should be, and then then stay there for a few years... that't not to say fuel prices will do the same of course, I'm sure they will keep going up.

[lust2luv]

69p a litre, yeah I reckon that's achievable. I'm sure BP will be happy to sell unleaded to you at around 37p/gallon (before duty/tax), that'd make great business sense with the current price of oil.

 

Does that target price give some clue as to how old this chain e-mail is? (and I bet it still hasn't reached 300 million Brits yet...)

 

[lust2luv]

Oh and BP have no connection to Exxon Mobil (who own Esso). I guess the company names have changed quite a lot over the years, but no-one's amended the text.

 

[jamesmark]

This breakdown on the BBC is slightly out of date, As based on fuel at 90p p/l.

 

Even if companies were to lower their prices we would not really say a major difference.

 

[ManwithSupra]

You have to remember the actual cost of fuel is not expensive !! and therefore i dont belive that its the oil companys job to take the hit, ok they make millions of dollers per hour but remember they dont make all that just on petrol they do other fuels and products that are derived from oil as well.

 

If the oil companies were to lower the price on petrol it would only be by a couple of pence which is pointless.

 

Its the Duty and Tax on it that needs to come off.... about 40p MR BROWN !!

[jamesmark]

One thing that could see a small difference is to add VAT at the beginning, and then they are not taxing the tax.

 

Also the other 2 main fuels we use Gas and Electric is charged at only 5% VAT (up to a certain point). Apart from the obvious money making, why cannot they class petrol in the same category?

[Rob]

One thing that could see a small difference is to add VAT at the beginning, and then they are not taxing the tax.

 

Also the other 2 main fuels we use Gas and Electric is charged at only 5% VAT (up to a certain point). Apart from the obvious money making, why cannot they class petrol in the same category?

 

Exactly, a good point.

[markus99]

exactly shouldn't be the oil companies to take the hit, theyre making profit the same way they always have done, they're a company and are there to purely make money, the goverment are supposed to be there to look after everyone's best interests, but yet and all i think i heard on the bbc news couple of nights ago that duty and tax accounts for 65p in every litre!!!