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Originally Posted by cmgreen
We should all just use one supplier. Get all our family and friends to use the same garage/brand of fuel. Then other suppliers will have to lower there fuel
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Except most "brands" sell their fuel to anyone, not only their own fuel stations (which they don't own anyway, mostly franchises) even competitors "brands" buy some of their fuel from them as well as all the supermarkets. The only one who suffers if we (for instance) boycott Shell, is the poor sods who run Shell franchises. Shell probably won't even notice. As we have to buy fuel from somewhere, so the slack is taken up elsewhere (Tescos f'rinstance, who probably buy Shell fuel).
And FWIW, selling filling station fuel is a minuscule part of most oil companies business. Usually only a few % or less. Most of it goes to plastics and chemical production.
Last time i looked at any specific figures (BP i think) fuel sales, diesel and petrol, globally, was less than 2%
Solution is to drive less. Unfortunately, successive governments have made it financially impractical to have any sort of integrated public transport system, and made it socially desirable to have a posh shiny car.
So we are knackered.