petrol / diesel ripp off

[bigred5765]

Found in another forum seems like a good idea
Hi guys
See what you think of this idea and pass it on if you agree with it. We are hitting 99p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying over £1 a ltr.

How's this for a 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 wimp 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!!! 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, Salisbury's, Morrison's Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso

copy and paste this to as many people/ forums as you can guys and lets screw em over instead of the other way round!!

[Kopite]

The supermarkets buy their petrol from the likes of Esso, BP and Shell anyway....

[footey]

is a really good idea and i would be up for it but i run a company van and my company only give me a card for bp

but hope everyone else will do

[cmgreen]

Originally Posted by Kopite

The supermarkets buy their petrol from the likes of Esso, BP and Shell anyway....

They May do, but i dont think so. If you have a derv, try sainsburys derv then shell, back to back tank. I would never fill up with sainsburys even it were 10p per ltr cheaper.

[RLGfx]

can't say there's an esso or BP garage too local to me anyway, besides, I only tend to put Shell V-Power in mine...

[Lee Martin]

fuels already over £1 a litre some places here!

[Lee]

The supermarkets DO buy the fuel from shell etc.

You never see an asda refinery do you

[losixxx]

think they do, filled up at tesco's tuesday night and had to weight a few minutes till the BP tanker moved!!

[Alfonzo]

Surely the vast majority of the cost of fuel is tax? So it's not the oil companies you need to target if you want the overall price bringing down.

[Southwell]

I filled up at 101.9 other day. £58 for a tank!

[DCM]

I won't complain that my LPG has gone up 5p a litre to 45.9p then......

[Southwell]

Yeah but you still had the initial outlay for the equipment

[DCM]

Ian, when i had it fitted, i was paying 29.9p a litre, and at 18mpg round town in the people carrier, it didn't take long(about 13 months) to pay for itself.

[Southwell]

Alright smartypants 18mpg :O thats nuts, you get that from a proper sports car!

[DCM]

it's a renault, so it never runs perfectly anyway..... and it is an 8v 2000cc where I should of got the V6.... worst, i can get the same mpg out of a V8 landrover....

[vader]

[BelstenToo]

Originally Posted by DCM

worst, i can get the same mpg out of a V8 landrover....

I dreamt of getting that high an mpg out of my v8 110 landy, it averaged around 13mpg
the sound made up for it though

[DCM]

got to be an EFi Pete, and you were a bit of an animal... especialy with your scimitar!!!

[losidan]

Originally Posted by Alfonzo

Surely the vast majority of the cost of fuel is tax? So it's not the oil companies you need to target if you want the overall price bringing down.

i once read that 97% of fuel price is tax....LPG is not cheaper it just isnt taxed as hard which is why the pump price is lower.

[tc2k]

Actually, I believe that yes it is taxed less, but also, it is cheaper as basically. The oil companies usually just burn the LPG off as its basically the byproduct of producing the petrol so instead of burning it, then can get rid of it for profit so its probably cheaper.