petrol prices

iggy1966 · Post by **iggy1966** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:31 pm

Got this by email today and seeing as I don't have that many emails to send it onto I thought I would post it here so all of you can copy it and pass it on.

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

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

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

chaz · Post by **chaz** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:55 pm

think Ive seen this 20 or 30 times a year since the 1980's, only thing that ever changes is the price!!! gets posted on loads of bike and car forums and people hijack email addresses then start sending them out privately.

allways triggers the arguement about why we drill for oil and gas then sell it yet import the oil and gas we want to use

chuxsta · Post by **chuxsta** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:27 pm

Timbo wrote:This didnt work the 50 times i have seen it before, why would it now?

Someone in my comany was disciplined for sending this sort of thing on as it was deemed misuse of the comany email systems no it wasnt me. And the prat did send it to an entire unit of the comany, around 1000 people

hahahah,, erm.. well.. i did similar at one of my first long term jobs.. was a different subject matter though..
i was then off for the next 3 days upon my return i had been suspended full pay pending investigation.. over the 3 days i was off that email i sent managed to bring the entire network for Kays and white arrow to a standstill cost them an insane amount of money to fix.

due to my PC knowledge they thought i had done it on purpose,
i got away with it cause i said a company this big with the profit they turn out should have a stable server and network to deal with this traffic, if they dont then people should not be able to send mass mails..

made me giggle any way..

Pete.L · Post by **Pete.L** » Fri May 23, 2008 8:04 am

So if sending this around isn't likely to work what can we do?
I managed to squeez Â£17 quid in the tank the other night and I wasn't even empty FFS

Pete.l

Post by **sirch345** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:01 am

I'd like to think we could make a difference to the price of petrol for sure

But surely the biggest issue on fuel price is the amount of tax we pay on it

The problem as I see it is the UK has a NHS to support, we are still funding war zone problems and all the immigrants legal or illegal that are perpetuating our country on a daily basis is what's draining the reserves. So the bottom line is the government needs more funds in the form of taxes from joe public. Only my opinion of course

But after saying that, it is really annoying with fuel prices going up when the big oil companies announce their huge profits

The problem with ever increasing fuel costs is, it not only affects the running costs of our vehicles but, it increases the cost of most things where transport is involved, food being one of the major items affected

OK rant over,

Chris.

biggus · Post by **biggus** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:13 am

You have to remember that other brands are still often Shell & Esso Petrol. I supply Exxon Mobil Fawley (nr Southampton) and they supply all sorts of brands like supermarkets etc. The only people you will really hit by boycotting forecourts are the franchisees... and how will they fund the calls to Bangladesh that they always seem to be making when I am trying to pay for my petrol

If we all just stopped using our vehicles for a couple of weeks and not buying from anywhere at all that would really scare them, but as previously mentioned the lion share of fuel costs is the government duty... And the government needs that money to pay for the families on the social with 13 plus kids like those on the telly last night...

storminateacup · Post by **storminateacup** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:27 am

Reduce the amount of fuel you buy. It's summer the weather is good

My wife is cycling the 7 miles to work I am using the Storm instead of the V8 Disco we saved Â£65 on fuel last week

If we can do this through the summer or most of it I will save more than I will lose when I do fill up. It's also good for the environment (allegedly)

adfski · Post by **adfski** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:12 pm

storminateacup wrote:Reduce the amount of fuel you buy. It's summer the weather is good My wife is cycling the 7 miles to work I am using the Storm instead of the V8 Disco we saved Â£65 on fuel last week If we can do this through the summer or most of it I will save more than I will lose when I do fill up. It's also good for the environment (allegedly)

Â£65 a week!!!

Jesus! - we don't spend more than Â£30 a week for a bike and a car to work every day. (ok we travel about 4-8 miles a day so it won't be much!)

As I always say when this debate comes up - fuel will not go down. It is a finite resource and we are using it at an increasing rate. If the Gov reduce duty it will be a temporary respite. Which they will have to get back by other means, (stealth tax anyone?)

The pot is almost empty folks so enjoy it while you can! The cost of traveling to work is the least of our problems when we can't use the far east slave trade to make our disposable crap that we so rely on. Such as this mac i'm typing on, mobile phones and the jeans I'm wearing.

When it becomes too expensive to travel goods around the world you will have to pay for them to be made in your own country. I reckon a pair of jeans made in the isle of man will cost about Â£100 to make. And that is if they can get the raw materials here!! (cotton farming in britain?) You can get jeans for less than a fiver at the moment!

It seems kind of short sighted to moan about the cost of filling my storm up when we're on the verge of a global transformation.

Balls - did I just write all that c**p - sorry folks. getting coat

Beamish · Post by **Beamish** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:42 pm

Adfski, good angle

still **king annoying though. I love engines

adfski · Post by **adfski** » Mon May 26, 2008 11:05 am

Beamish wrote:Adfski, good angle still **king annoying though. I love engines

Yeah - we all love them noisy twin pots - so I'm happy paying Â£7-8 for a lap of the TT course and I'll carry on doin it until it I can't any more.

And I'll enjoy telling my kids/grandkids about how we used to fly around on petrol powered noisy bikes at 140mph.

Stratman · Post by **Stratman** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:03 pm

and all the immigrants legal or illegal that are perpetuating our country on a daily basis is what's draining the reserves.

Chris, we don't normally disagree, but I think you will find that if it wasn't for the (legal) immigrants staffing our hospitals etc, we wouldn't have a helath service at all! It is the immigrant population that has kept inflationlow over the last few years - perhaps at the cost to wages for the "indigineous" population (whatever that is now) but to link high fuel duty to immigration is worthy only of the BNP, IMHO.

No worries mate, we won't fall out over this, but thought I should add my opinion too

Post by **sirch345** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:15 pm

Stratman wrote:
and all the immigrants legal or illegal that are perpetuating our country on a daily basis is what's draining the reserves.
Chris, we don't normally disagree, but I think you will find that if it wasn't for the (legal) immigrants staffing our hospitals etc, we wouldn't have a helath service at all! It is the immigrant population that has kept inflationlow over the last few years - perhaps at the cost to wages for the "indigineous" population (whatever that is now) but to link high fuel duty to immigration is worthy only of the BNP, IMHO.

No worries mate, we won't fall out over this, but thought I should add my opinion too

Hi Paul,

Well spotted mate, I'm glad to see you are paying attention

I couldn't say about your comment's on the NHS although I think I understand what you're saying. I'll be surprised though if a very large percentage out of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants actually end up working for the NHS.

IMHO I would not agree that the immigrant population has helped to keep inflation low, the only ones who have helped in that way are the ones that are here for the long haul or permanant stay. The ones that come here for the short term don't put anymore back into the community (to help keep inflation low) than absolutely necessary, as their main aim is to sent as much of their wages as possible back home.

Then you've got immigrants who are being exploited by being paid low wages, so what happens then is the government has to dip into the pot to support these people so they can afford to live here.

I don't blame anyone wanting to come over to the UK for a better life

IMHO you can put it which way you like but immigrants are costing this country money even if you do discount the long term stayers. I doubt the government would be proposing to put restrictions on immigrants coming to the UK if they were helping with our financial problems, they would be opening the gates even wilder more likely.

Fall out, don't be silly, we're only having a discussion

If you still don't agree with me Paul, then we can agree to disagree

Cheers,

Chris.