I received this email from one of my nieces this morning:-

 

It benefits us all, please pass on.

 

See what you think and pass it 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. 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 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

 

What do you think?

It could be the person who started this email doesn't realise where the petrol comes from, regardless of the branding name.

 

Also they don't seem to understand how much of the cost of petrol goes to the C of E................NO not the Church of England, I'm talking about the Chancellor of the Exchequer :rofl:

It could be the person who started this email doesn't realise where the petrol comes from, regardless of the branding name.

 

Also they don't seem to understand how much of the cost of petrol goes to the C of E................NO not the Church of England, I'm talking about the Chancellor of the Exchequer :rofl:

 

Even so the oil companies have posted 300% increacein profits of Petrol sold in the UK. So it's not such a stupid idea.

How old is that...95p a liter....not seen it that cheap for a very long time!

£1.02p by me its getting beyond a joke

Even so the oil companies have posted 300% increacein profits of Petrol sold in the UK. So it's not such a stupid idea.

 

 

I am happy to try anything to reduce the cost of petrol . :)

I only ever buy Shell unless I've run low in a strange town so I won't be much help LOL

Not that I am particularly bothered by the environment but the high price of petrol encourages people to use more economical cars and use less fuel anyway.

 

If petrol prices dropped we would just use more of it...

I only ever buy Shell unless I've run low in a strange town so I won't be much help LOL

 

Must admit I always use Shell though i do use Tescos finest for my Volvo as it seems to like it more.

regular is 93.9 where i am... v power 100.9

 

So its not that old, but we all know to look at the expensive stuff lol

Bp and esso (or exxon-mobil as there proper name) are not the same company now (or ever have been) by any extent.

according to the Forbes worlds richest companies Exxon and BP rate 4 and 5 which is a greater GDP than most countries in the world put together.

THE TOP TEN

1.Citigroup

2.General Electric

3.American Intl Group

4.ExxonMobil

5.BP

6.Bank of America

7.HSBC Group

8.Toyota Motor

9.Fannie Mae

10.Wal-Mart Stores

 

so action like this is not going to touch them.

 

also as z32dave says, just because the sign on the forecourt might not say BP or Esso there is no reason the petrol sold there is not from one of these guys in one way or another (subsea extraction, refining, transport site are all owned or partly owned by the oil majors). The petrol is most likely to come from the local refinery or storage site. Most of the petrol in the south of england will come from Exxons refinery near southampton for example.

 

I am all for fighting to reduce the ridiculous price of petrol but dont think strikes like this will have any impact unfortunately

This is not such a bad idea, as much as all the petrol comes from the same place it impacts on the purchasing company to put presure on the oil company to reduce price.

 

If some of you are paying 93.9 why then am I paying 98.9 for the exact same thing?

 

Because they can get away with it, The tax man won't worry cos the more it costs me the more tax he gets.

 

Think about this, in my town of Daventry we have two petrol lables to choose from, Total and Esso, and we have three Total stations against one Esso. If the whole of my town stopped useing Total then they would be under pressure to reduce prices or loose money, and I don't just mean petrol I mean the store as well.

 

Put that on a national scale.

104.9 for vpower down here, bloody ridiculous

This is really just about healthy competition. If you religiously only ever bought fuel from the cheapest garage in your area then they would all compete to be the cheapest and that is the best shot you will get at getting a decent price. This falls apart of course when companies go out of business and we end up with a monopoly at which point we're all at their mercy. At this point all we have to deal with is a cartel.

 

Anyway, one of the places to find the cheapest fuel in your area is here :- http://www.petrolprices.com/

Ah yes well - problem is how to find the cheapest V-power within a deviation from the planned route which makes the delta extra mileage more than offset by the money saved given the empty volume in the tank by the time you get to the cheaper petrol station.

 

Of course the real way to reduce the price of petrol is to reduce the demand (i.e. encourage non-hydrocarbon energy so petrol is saved for proper uses like burning it in VG30DE and VG30DETT - oh, OK, any Z/ZX is fine) or ensure your supplies of valuable hydrocarbons come from countries in a nice stable environment not swarming with extremists who don't share your religion. Ah - that worked well, didn't it...

Cheaper fuel would just add to the already ridiculous amount of traffic on our roads. I would quite happily pay twice as much for fuel if it meant that only half as many cars were using the roads.

Bp and esso (or exxon-mobil as there proper name) are not the same company now (or ever have been) by any extent.

according to the Forbes worlds richest companies Exxon and BP rate 4 and 5 which is a greater GDP than most countries in the world put together.

THE TOP TEN

1.Citigroup

2.General Electric

3.American Intl Group

4.ExxonMobil

5.BP

6.Bank of America

7.HSBC Group

8.Toyota Motor

9.Fannie Mae

10.Wal-Mart Stores

 

so action like this is not going to touch them.

 

also as z32dave says, just because the sign on the forecourt might not say BP or Esso there is no reason the petrol sold there is not from one of these guys in one way or another (subsea extraction, refining, transport site are all owned or partly owned by the oil majors). The petrol is most likely to come from the local refinery or storage site. Most of the petrol in the south of england will come from Exxons refinery near southampton for example.

 

I am all for fighting to reduce the ridiculous price of petrol but dont think strikes like this will have any impact unfortunately

 

We all need to park our Zeds up on the M25 & M1 every week Monday to Friday and fook up the uk economy if we all fooked up the roads in all big citys even one day a week that would make them think Gordon could knock off the 75p tax (the coont). They would not pay what we do in France they would be on the street smashing up the place.

i dont think they pay alot less in than us in France. My girlfriends family live in northern france near the france-belgium border and they go over the border to belgium to buy their petrol.

 

I dont think many countries in the west get really cheap petrol anymore except probably the americans!

Shal we not forget teh war on terror. Yes thats right do a search for Bin Ladens family and where tehir money comes from.

 

This is a ver noble idea, and if i thoought for 1 minute that all the people I knew would stop buying from BP and ESSO id give it a go. As it is most buy from the supermarkets round here. And i wouldnt mind betteing that they get thier fuel from teh same companies.

Cheaper fuel would just add to the already ridiculous amount of traffic on our roads. I would quite happily pay twice as much for fuel if it meant that only half as many cars were using the roads.

 

You poor brain washed fool, the powers at be are quite happy to have the amount of traffic that we have and even more maybe

 

ITS A MONEY SPINNER

Shal we not forget teh war on terror. Yes thats right do a search for Bin Ladens family and where tehir money comes from.

 

This is a ver noble idea, and if i thoought for 1 minute that all the people I knew would stop buying from BP and ESSO id give it a go. As it is most buy from the supermarkets round here. And i wouldnt mind betteing that they get thier fuel from teh same companies.

 

If everyone stopped buying Pepsi from your local Tesco (assuming that was the only soft drink they sold) then they would reduce their price.