Fuel prices

[crossbones]

Maybe this would work? Had it in an e-mail today.

We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 a litre. 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 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 (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 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 email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso

[diapason]

I never use Esso or BP, but Shell are the most expensive in Paisley at £1.03 per litre for diesel. Tesco give you 5p per litre off if you spend £50 in their place - at least they did last week!

[Analoguesat]

Originally Posted by crossbones

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 8 days!!! Acting together we can make a difference If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

Which is 5 times the entire population of the UK which is silly as the message is aimed at the people of the UK. Its just another idiotic chain mail. The best thing to do with them is just delete them .

[MarkB]

very interesting!

[crossbones]

We can but try!

[madrat]

well judging the ques in my all my local station no one seams to mind the high price.

[Tee_111]

My friend has recommended me to get an ASDA card, and purchase diesel from ASDA, with a ASDA card you get 2p off every litre of fuel!! which you cant really go wrong!

[diapason]

99.9p for diesel yesterday, 100.9p today in Morrisons supermarket in Paisley, but there's a Shell place charging £104.9 and only a mile away.. I always think the "0.9p" addition to the price is a con to make us think that the fuel is cheaper!!

[BGonaSTICK]

If 300 million people stopped buying Esso or BP petrol until the price dropped to 69 pence a litre, they would both go out of business in double-quick time, the global oil market would collapse - creating immediate fuel shortages - which would in turn cause panic-buying and petrol prices pegged at £5 a litre.

That's not to mention the total implosion of the already-brittle world economy (held together with Monopoly money and duct-tape ATM) throwing us all into recession, a return to the three-day working week, interest rates in double figures and unemployment back at three million before you can even ask for your Nectar points.

I hate to **** on Phil's parade, but it isn't the buyers that control the market. This is particularly true of the oil market where prices are kept artificially high by the producing countries and Philip Hollsworth is therefore clearly a ****!

IMHO

[stevo25]

hmmm i don't believe that this country (uk) could not buy petrol for a day, because we don't have enough of a socialist attitude as the French do, because there will always be someone who say feck that I'm buying petrol and you cant stop me. Also about half the cost of a litre is made up of duty and this doesn't got to shell, bp or whoever. Just my 2.5p