Dunc
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| posted on 3/5/02 at 08:47 AM |
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More shite about petrol prices. (long though!)
I got sent this today in an email, thought I'd post it as I don't have enough friends on my address book.
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Join the resistance!!!! I hear 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.
Phillip Hollsworth, in the USA, 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 with us!
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about 77p a litre is super
cheap.
Me too! It is currently 79p - 83p for regular unleaded in some towns. 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.
How?
Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying petrol. But we CAN
have an
impact on petrol prices if we all act together to force a price war.
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 about thirty 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. (If you
don't
understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this
to 10
people.... well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am...
so
trust me on this one.)
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail 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 AND
KEEP
THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
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James
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| posted on 3/5/02 at 10:15 AM |
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I realise that BP/Esso etc. all make money out of petrol but their portion of the cut is tiny in comparison to what the government takes in tax. I
can't rememeber the exact figure but it's about 75% of your 80p a litre goes straight to Mr Gordon Brown.
I remember at the time of the petrol crisis last year a TV news program that said that petrol companies make hardly any money out of the actual
forecourt petrol anyway- they get most of it from the high-priced shops and other services like the aero industry.
Personally I'd say we should press for the government to ditch social security and the NHS and put that money into petrol price cuts.
James
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Dunc
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| posted on 3/5/02 at 11:29 AM |
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I don't think the message is to harm BP/ Esso. I believe it's targetted at reducing the base price of crude oil in the OPEC cartel, this would
reduce the pump price and what Mr Brown gets as a result.
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 3/5/02 at 04:21 PM |
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most of it goes to the government anayway,check teletext fuel prices worldwide,romania it about 30p litre i think,if they can do it why cant we,cos
the money gets wasted not alowed to say on what in case i get a visit from the thought police
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phil.shelton
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| posted on 3/5/02 at 04:48 PM |
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yes but if this amount of consumers stoped buying from esso and bp then there would be issues regarding employment figs and this may help to force the
goverments hand.also the to largest oil companys in the uk may have a thing or two to say to mr brown. I say GO FOR IT lest faceit we got to do some
thing. Whats the point in having nice sports car if its going to cost £5.00 to reverse it out the garage
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