DaBouncer Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Got this off another forum... may work! I'm willing to give it a try! ----------------------- If you have a interest in the price at the pump - read on. If not please ignore and delete. I think this could be worth a try. We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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 at 77p -80p, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace 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 whimp 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!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! 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 Action: It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p)Jet etc. i.e.boycott BP and Esso ------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 The Supermarkets get their petrol from BP and Esso anyway, the price of crude went down today did it not?... hold fire and it'll come down on its own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Yeah, if you boycott you'll be cutting your nose off to spite your face really, cos how you gonna get anywhere without putting fuel in your motor?! And like RPG says prices will come down of their own accord eventually, they'll have to or garages'll end up going down the swannee cos nobody'll be able to afford to fill up at them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBouncer Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 Obviously Rich you haven't read the first post have you RPG I did think that too... but surely there MUST be petrol stations which don't buy from BP or ESSO surely? Just use those perhaps? And on the subject of crude oil coming down... that doesn't mean petrol will too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrence Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 I agree with boycotting Esso but for wholly different reasons: http://www.stopesso.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Originally posted by DaBouncer RPG I did think that too... but surely there MUST be petrol stations which don't buy from BP or ESSO surely? Just use those perhaps? And on the subject of crude oil coming down... that doesn't mean petrol will too! Most petrol stations here use BP. Shell are their own company but dont (seemingly) sell off their stock to other names anymore. However, they are more expensive! The only other places which you are gonna find non-BP petrol are the independant petrol retailers, but prices are skyhigh. if the crude oil prices come down, the petrol usually falls in line with it, if it didnt the petrol companies would have riots on their hands lol. Sainsburys (albeit BP supplied) seem to be the cheapest round here, (with the vouchers from food shopping as well!) so id reccomend using them. we should start a thread whereby people post the current petrol prices at their local/frequently used stations! if we find out whos is the cheapest im sure it'll save people LOADS of money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBouncer Posted May 27, 2004 Author Share Posted May 27, 2004 It's not the same though, as petrol prices continue to rise everywhere. I cannot remember a time petrol came down in price due to the price of crude oil going down. It just doesn't happen. Remember it's our government that tax petrol so heavily (much in the same way as cigarettes) that oil companies have to put up prices. If the government eased off 10p in the litre for petrol it would ease things for everyone. I'm just now saving for an LPG conversion for my car.... where the cost for fuel is still lower than 40p a litre! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qazitory Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 Originally posted by RPG we should start a thread whereby people post the current petrol prices at their local/frequently used stations! if we find out whos is the cheapest im sure it'll save people LOADS of money see here for the cheapest fuel in your area http://www.aapetrolbusters.com/ Also refers to this thread http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10776&highlight=petrol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidla Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 Just boycott petrol full stop. Get an electric car, walk, use public transport, cycle... there are so many alternatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Ludd Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 Agreed Sidla. Crude oil extraction world wide has plateaued (spelt right?) and will be in decline within 10 years (as D.Cheney and D.Rumsfeld well know)........ those moaning about petrol prices now won't know what will hit them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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