Price of petrol

[BILLY]

This was emailed to me today! Please read then copy and paste and email on!

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

We are hitting £108.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.10 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certainday campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn'tcontinue 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 usto think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to takeaggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place
not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, weconsumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see theprice 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 ittoat least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to atleast ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reachedover 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.(andnot buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of ussends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt,
all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within thenext 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 yourpetrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e.boycott BP and Esso

[tigersaw]

So the oil companies are expected to subsidise the forecourt sales?
Since they make just a few pence per litre, they hardly have room to manouver.

[Grinch]

This again... nothing ever happens with it... the only thing that will really work is direct action. Which seems to have also run out of steam.

[metalmonkey]

Really who ever though up this idea was dumb, were do you think supermarkets get their petrol from eh:rolleyes: There are only so many refiners in this country, who da ya think owns them?

Also as stated I know for a fact, that the fuel companies make more selling junk in the shop, then selling petrol.

Yup only way direct action:smt066, block access to all referiners and major cities, for a week or more, the goverment will have to do something.

[tigersaw]

the goverment will have to do something.

Yup, arrest everyone for an act of terrorism - thay have thought this one through already.

[metalmonkey]

Not if there are 1000's of people there they won't......

The subjects of fuel cost is of concern to racers as well, its already makes something that cost a lot, cost more:smt013

What annyos me is that is manily tax on fuel is why its so expenise, all the government do is waste our money on crap and making sure their many homes and cars are paid for. MP#s pay should be cut and many benfits removed, then perhaps we will get the right the people in office.

[MiniMatt]

Sounds like we need to go kick some more butt in the Middle East and secure their oil reserves for ourselves :D

Oh, right, we tried that one already... :D

[Ceri JC]

So the oil companies are expected to subsidise the forecourt sales?
Since they make just a few pence per litre, they hardly have room to manouver.

This is my view. The government take far and away the biggest slice of the pie of the forecourt prices and do the least for it. If the price is to come down, the tax needs to come off it. People will argue that they'll just tax us more elsewhere, but I'd say they need to go for "thin government" and save the costs there, instead. That said, it's always Texaco and Tescos for me, if I can help it.

[blueto]

This is my view. The government take far and away the biggest slice of the pie of the forecourt prices and do the least for it. If the price is to come down, the tax needs to come off it. People will argue that they'll just tax us more elsewhere, but I'd say they need to go for "thin government" and save the costs there, instead. That said, it's always Texaco and Tescos for me, if I can help it.

+1 there geri!

Mr brown needs to take the action so if everyone follwos suit and hits Mr browns inbox with 300 million emails complaing about petrol, he might do something about it

[wyrdness]

Won't work, as most of what you're paying is tax.

Although when the petrol companies say that they're only making a few pence at the pumps, that's 'creative accounting'.

[muffles]

Haha I remember this mail when it used to go out with "petrol is 89p, soon we will be faced with OVER 90p/LITRE OMG OMGGG". It just gets edited with different numbers and re-spammed every time the petrol price issue comes up!

[Ed]

This is my view. The government take far and away the biggest slice of the pie of the forecourt prices and do the least for it. If the price is to come down, the tax needs to come off it. People will argue that they'll just tax us more elsewhere, but I'd say they need to go for "thin government" and save the costs there, instead. That said, it's always Texaco and Tescos for me, if I can help it.

Fact is that when your bills go up, or your income goes down you have to cut back on something.

This Government has proved completely incapable of reducing its spend. So when its income falls, they simply meet the shortfall by stealth tax or by borrowing more.

I used to send between twenty and forty thousand pounds a week to the Inland Revenue in stamp duty on resi conveyancing jobs. It was eye-watering sums. Now, I send a fraction of that. A huge, huge fall, all because of there being so few property deals ongoing at the moment. Friends Brown and Darling have not been honest about the extent of it, and they are going to have to make up a huge drop in SDLT from somewhere. It won't just be SDLT either.

You don't need the brain of Einstein to work out where it's going to come from.

[DanAbnormal]

Nothing will happen since we can't blockade anymore due to terrorism laws. Even if they take the duty off of fuel they'll just hit us elsewhere. The solution? I don't know. Until we find an alternative fuel for our vehicles there isn't much we can do. But even if a car/bike could be run on tap water, the water rates would then soar or it would become illegal to run such a vehicle, so they've got us whichever way they want us (over an expensive oil barrel). All we can do is moan about it to them and hope they give in. Or emigrate and leave this country to the immigrants who get free handouts, pay no tax and send all their money back home. One of the biggest issues is that no government is in it for the long haul so they only plan to make changes over a 4 year period. We need an external body who can deal with trasnport issues over a much longer term, and have the good of the people and envirnment at heart. I guess no scuh idea exists though. Shame, I love this country but this government really do just take from us while not improving much of anything other than their own pockets.

[BILLY]

Lets all just bend over and take it up the **** then:rolleyes:

[DanAbnormal]

Lets all just bend over and take it up the **** then:rolleyes:

We don't really have much choice do we. As others have said, regardless of where you buy it the issues are not from the oil companies. It's the government tax and that is on every litre at every station. I need petrol for my vehicle for me to work, so I have to buy it. Simple as that and the government know it all too well.

[kitkat]

i paid ?1.11 a litre tonight. If i cant afford it, I just dont use the car and walk. I vaguely remember it being ?1 a gallon or at least I think I do

[BILLY]

i paid ?1.11 a litre tonight. If i cant afford it, I just dont use the car and walk. I vaguely remember it being ?1 a gallon or at least I think I do
I reember filling up my cub90 for about £2.00 and that was in the late 80s:smt045

[Stingo]

Billy - would you happen to have that thing in a slightly larger font?;):D Cheers.

[kwak zzr]

i hear tonight on the news the head of the Conservatives claimed 20k towards his mortgage?

[rob13]

bah theres no alternative to the **** we have in at the moment. Theyre all playing the green card which doesnt help anyone with a democratic vote. Unfortunately the party who seem to be quoting vote winning policy, you could never vote for becuase of what they stand for. That is the grim fact of politics today. Where is the strength in depth? We have weaker front benches than the England 1st team!