PETROL PRICES

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

We are hitting ?106.9 p 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 certain

day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil

companies just laughed at= 0that 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
a ggressive 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 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

thats been going round for ages mate..

it'll never happen, plus i reckon its the bosses of Texaco that started it.. lol

Its a good idea, but no one will ever do it..

I still say its not te petrol companies fault, but our greedy government, not only is it high duty on fuel, then they add VAT, coupel that to income to tax and they are taking far too much

if everyone decided for a week, not to leave their homes, not to buy fuel, therefore not get to work etc the ecenomy would start to fail and then the government would have to do sommething…

Shame that'll never happen either

don't point the finger at the oil company's point the finger at the government
the oil company makes probably about 11p per ltr if their luck the government 65p or there abouts, your blaming the wrong folk.

or blaim to saudis for regulating how much oil wer getting?

Petrol companies do "product sharing" which means that even if you boycotted, say Esso filling stations, they'd still supply petrol to Shell, Texaco, etc in the local area of a distribution depot. They'd be down on sales of mars bars and fags though.

OPEC's control of oil prices is less so now than it was historically, if you look back at the oil crises of the 70s you'll see they had formidable grip and doubled the price of crude overnight, etc. Nowadays its probably controlled as much by USA as anyone else - if they don't like how another country supplies oil, they "Regime change" it.

Comes down to the Middle East though - the crucial question is - what is the future destiny of Jerusalem, which has been declared a holy city both by Islam and Christianity?

paul_c said

Petrol companies do "product sharing" which means that even if you boycotted, say Esso filling stations, they'd still supply petrol to Shell, Texaco, etc in the local area of a distribution depot. They'd be down on sales of mars bars and fags though.

OPEC's control of oil prices is less so now than it was historically, if you look back at the oil crises of the 70s you'll see they had formidable grip and doubled the price of crude overnight, etc. Nowadays its probably controlled as much by USA as anyone else - if they don't like how another country supplies oil, they "Regime change" it.

Comes down to the Middle East though - the crucial question is - what is the future destiny of Jerusalem, which has been declared a holy city both by Islam and Christianity?

is ther anything you dont kno?

I didn't read all of what you said cause it's nearly 12am and I'm very tired from playing xbox all night, haha.

But.. I went to a Total in Hinckley the other day, ?1.08 for petrol and ?1.11 for diesel.

I put ?5 in and then drove about 9 miles to a Tesco to fill up lol.

not again. no point.
paul it's not strictly a product share. there is an agreement with all uk petrol refinery's that allows any oil tanker to dock and unload at any site. the crude oil is then stored and processed on site into various products before being stored on site again until needed. the volume of oil in, is deducted from the refinery's own oil intake. a tanker can then collect on this volume at this site rather than head to another for fuel. any additives are added to the tanker not to the processed fuel and all fuel comes out of the refinery at 120 ron ish dependent on how long it's been sat. and what additives are added.
for this agreement to work petrol companies have to sell there oil at a similar price it's not a cartel but it's not far off.

as for opec not having as bigger grip o the price of oil these days. they can't they were found to be working in a cartel to create a multi company conclomarate and are now watch very closely by an independent watchdog (woof woof).

bring back carl marks

Just to put fuel on the fire!

Usa are selling oil stocks back to Nigera as they have a surplus!

give em a year and they'll be buying it back.

A5OPY said

don't point the finger at the oil company's point the finger at the government
the oil company makes probably about 11p per ltr if their luck the government 65p or there abouts, your blaming the wrong folk.

what he said..Blame Brown, hes the cock whos ripping us all off, an old school protest march or 3 might help..for a week :roll:

the figure is closer to 70p per ltr, thats what the government get, and they want another 2.5p ontop of that, one of the reasons for this is a continued push towards public transport - forcing us out of our cars and onto busses and trains that cost a fortune… almost as much as owning a car does with no garuntee of a seat, and ive done euston to carlisle with out a seat - its not fun.

so here's to all you whale hugging tree loving hippies that backed a greener future with out asking how it will affect us all.

im looking at you fellow VW enthusiasts with camper vans and long hair.

Skipback said

one of the reasons for this is a continued push towards public transport - forcing us out of our cars and onto busses and trains that cost a fortune…

and thats if your public transport works, the bus service round my way is as reliable as (forgive the poor joke) an air cooled vw

i read an interesting thing in a paper, that whilst 'Brown' was chancellor he blew britains savings on investments that gave nothing back, made the railways public and therefor the reliability bottomed and the cost spiralled, he's also screwed the nhs over so there millions of pounds in debt, this countries government is a sham. consequently, he's put the price of everything up to try and make up the lost funds

i would be more agreeabe to high prices if they were spent well, the duty we pay on fuel and road tax is more than enough to cover road repair, nhs, schools etc, but its instead spent on wars, foreigners and lazy chav's that cant be arsed to get a proper job!

What would you do about the NHS then? Privatise healthcare?

Dont want to disharten anyone but ive just returned from working
 in Kuwait and i was sticking 60ltrs of petrol in the 4x4 i had and it
 was costing me just under ?7.00 . just go's to show ya how the great
 british goverment rip us off eh

Skipback said

 

so here's to all you whale hugging tree loving hippies that backed a greener future with out asking how it will affect us all.

im looking at you fellow VW enthusiasts with camper vans and long hair.

please dont blame the 'greenies' its very short sighted. were not all hippies some of us are very normal people just doing their jobs

you think you have public transport problems, i live in the Highlands where having a car is essential, so i make my own fuel, well diesel anyway…
one benefit from the fuel prices hike, it has forced me to be more resourceful, and to cycle whenever i can, when i do get to go for a burn in the car i appreciate it a lot more….whats left of the oil is not gonna last for ever, might as well start getting used to it….

paul_c said

What would you do about the NHS then? Privatise healthcare?

yep

quikclipper said

Skipback said

 

so here's to all you whale hugging tree loving hippies that backed a greener future with out asking how it will affect us all.

im looking at you fellow VW enthusiasts with camper vans and long hair.

please dont blame the 'greenies' its very short sighted. were not all hippies some of us are very normal people just doing their jobs "

i dont blame YOU , i do blame the ones who can afford to drive 4x4's, or buy the new hybrids, or merc's, or brand new BMW's and not feel the pinch of this, unlike me, im a civil servant i get paid peanuts, and its always the people with money who are saying "we should use more public transport" - yet they wont need to, they can afford the petrol, it wont affect them.

beside, coconut oil is already proven to be a good base for alternatives to current petroleum products, shell have a synthetic petrol, BP/ british Ethanol are designing synthetic petrol… im not too worried by it really.

paul_c said

What would you do about the NHS then? Privatise healthcare?

no, it just needs the money to be spent properly and doctors and nurses to use abit of common sense to stop making mistakes that cost more money. you dont see private healthcare with the same problems, their service is 1st class!

 its very easy to get wound up wiv everything in this country, so i'm jus gonna move abroad, to dubai, where you dont pay tax

Well, I'm not happy today…

Went to fill up with diesle in works van.. 114.9 per litre… Outrageous..
Premuim diesel was 120.9 and that was BP…

went into Asda for soem veggie  oil, sold out of cheap stuff… Only had stuff on shelf at 95p per litre..

Not good…