Could it work /??

[CJ-IROCZ]

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

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

[Gator]

or  everyone could refuse to go to work until the government who are the villains in this reduce the duty on fuel

but that aint never going to happen either

[F Body]

With the petrol companies making a £1 billion profit each month, I can't see them being too worried
What about the office of Fair Trading ?????

The current prices relate to the speculated price for oil which isn't even out of the ground yet, it takes a minimum of 3 months to get to the pumps, so how come the price has gone up so much already
If the crude price drops the pumps prices never match the drop

As Starfish is going to say " Supply & demand " as I say " We are being screwed "

[Rocky]

It worked in the States but then they have a petrol station on nearly every corner. I havnt used BP or esso in about 10 years, Total is the cheapest by us.

[Roadkill]

Petrol companies don't actually make alot on fuel - in fact I'd guess their "Mark up" was less then any supermarket selling baked beans.

It's the 66% (?) we pay to the government that's the crippling part.

So why don't we all stop shopping at Tescos so they reduce their mark up more ?

Food is VAT free - right ? - so it seems cheap, although the mark up is massive.

If petrol was tax free we'd be paying about 40p a litre with the petrol companies making very little from their sales.

Don't forget that BP, Shell etc . .  make most of their money selling and refining chemicals and other products - NOT petrol.

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: Roadkill

Don't forget that BP, Shell etc . . make most of their money selling and refining chemicals and other products - NOT petrol.

Yup..  Its not so much their fault, its the tax on a tax on a tax on a tax that we have to pay that has caused all this.

I dont buy from BP or Esso either, Jet or ASDA is the cheapest in east & south MK...  This kind of plan should work but wont becuase of the people who drive company cars and get fuel paid for them.  They wont care where they fill up, they just want the most convienient place, not cheapest.

[Kenny]

Quoting: Roadkill

Don't forget that BP, Shell etc . . make most of their money selling and refining chemicals and other products - NOT petrol.

The words Nail and head spring to mind.  Petrol is basically the crap BP has left over after they've extracted all the good stuff.

The scheme in the email wont work, even if everyone stopped going to BP and ESSO.  Who do you think sells the fuel to the super markets


What the government should do is not have a fixed percentage for fuel duty.  they should reduce the percentage they take, depending on the price of fuel at the time.  That way the fuel price wouldn't fluctuate so much, and the Budget wont be effected (much).

[Incursus]

Quoting: Kenny

Who do you think sells the fuel to the super markets

nail....head

[art b]

well the large amount of fuel duty, aint doing gordy any favours at the moment....

[HardRockCamaro]

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