Cheap Petrol

[Joe Sheehan!]

i got this sent to me, seems like it could work?

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

We are hitting 95p a litre in some 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 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. Her

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!!

send 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 message out to ten more people within one day of receipt,

all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! 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, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

won't work, industry doesn't give a f**k, they'll sell it to a bigger country.

these guys have got monopoly for a reason.

[BONGO]

thats been flying round for years.

And prices are still going up....

[Fuse]

The problem is, it isn't really the oil companies that are causing the high price of petrol. It's more to do with the fact that the government tax the hell out of it.

[sfboy]

The problem is, it isn't really the oil companies that are causing the high price of petrol. It's more to do with the fact that the government tax the hell out of it.

Yeah, it went up by 4p last week.

[trials_pimp]

wont work at all.

1) Most big companies in this country use BP petrol cards, so all their company cars can only fill up there.

2) Ford advertise BP inside oll their new fuel flaps, so new customers will most likley go their as advised by the manufacturer.

3) The cost of fuel from the Oil companies is already pretty cheap. The only thing making it expencive is the Governments fuel Tax, approx 250%

4) BP and Esso supply almost all the major supermarkets with fuel, so they are still selling oil, just not from their own forecorts.

The only way to get fuel prices down is to hit out at the government, they control the rediculous amounts of tax on fuel and car duty.

And there is no chance of them dropping it, as its easy reliable money.

[hI-OOPS-CAPS]

theres an outrage when petrol prices are £1, but when people soo 1ltr is 99.9p they arent too bother. i think they try their best.

also get a diesel the passat got 700mile in 1 tank

[Greetings]

People just use gas over here. Cheap as chips, under 3 pounds per 100km for a normal sized 2.0L saloon car.

Minor loss in bhp (about 2-3%) with a proper gas installation.

[Gavyn.]

great plan but bp are paying me through college and i'd rather it didn't stop, not to mention the fact that they'll just import it into somewhere else.

it's 96.9p here i think

[scousertrials]

If people stoped smoking a saving of millions would be sought by government through reduced health cost.

If people stoped binge drinking and excessive drinking another saving would be sought by government through reduced health cost.

If people stop crime in all its guises a saving would be through reduced police expenditure.

If people stoped eating crap like high cholesterol, fatty and carcinogenic foods ect and took control of their health even more saving would be sought

If all people worked less pay out in benifit claims = more savings.

There is more saving everywhere. Its not the government thats f**king us its ourselves.

Walk more, cycle more to and from work ect LOL and even car sharing can have an effect on petrol prices.

Work from home if you can (I cant for that matter).

You get the message.

Feel free to scrutinise this opinion.

[future orange 660]

great idea lol.

not a reality though since as has been mentioned...these *refinery* companies supply other places. and who else is there to buy from?

also if companies knew customers wouldcome to them as a protest...they may even hike prices themselves. could happen. eitherway, the big compaines do not loose out. they still fuel your car that you insist on driving for fun, then complaining about it costing lots. shit happens.

[br3n]

smoking and drinking more than cancel out the effects due to the massive taxes on those products as well...

cholesterol and obessity I agree with, If someones eaten so much they are risking their lives I do think somewhere along the lines the NHS should pay but they should be less prioritsed than someone who actually givesa shit about themselves and has a genuine problem with their heart (as an example)

Human rights have gone too far and in general the money lead sociaty that is britain (just look at all the sueing/claiming culture that is today) its bollocks it really is. Governments are lead and managed by people who have nothing in common with 90% of its people, Its stupid.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

If people stoped smoking a saving of millions would be sought by government through reduced health cost.

If people stoped binge drinking and excessive drinking another saving would be sought by government through reduced health cost.

If people stop crime in all its guises a saving would be through reduced police expenditure.

If people stoped eating crap like high cholesterol, fatty and carcinogenic foods ect and took control of their health even more saving would be sought

If all people worked less pay out in benifit claims = more savings.

There is more saving everywhere. Its not the government thats f**king us its ourselves.

Walk more, cycle more to and from work ect LOL and even car sharing can have an effect on petrol prices.

Work from home if you can (I cant for that matter).

You get the message.

Feel free to scrutinise this opinion.

thank you for that fantastic overview of the economy.

there's so much wrong with that i cannot even be bothered.

[Tomm]

there's so much wrong with that i cannot even be bothered.

Maybe you should? Seems about right to me?

Not that it's particularly relevant but hey.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

Fair enough.

it just struck me as being terribly naive in approach to the whole thing, in the approach that if we stopped doing everything that put a cost towards the government everything would be a lot better off, forgetting the whole idea of taxation on these things and the motives of government nowadays and the fact that it is most certainly not a non profit affair.

I'm not saying that I wouldn't like to see public services improved, but by restricting people in that manner, it's not dissimilar to a weird totalitarian state that Orwell would get wet over and by saving costs within those services, it's still going to have no impact upon the price of petrol, (more likely the lining of somebody's wallet(Ahem)), seeing it's in the governments interest to keep fuel prices high, as it effects almost all other commodities, and they can tax the bugger out of it all to keep everything running.

also

carcinogenic foods ect

I've been meaning to get plutonium free yoghurts for a while now, but i can never find them...

[Token]

I know a few people do it now, but for my next car I dont think it'd be a bad idea to buy a small crappy diesel and run it on a sunflower oil/diesil mix.

I'm sure 2 litres of sunflower oil was like 80p last time I checked, so if you could run your car on a 2:1 mix.

Would work out to be about 60p a litre which is pretty good I think.