Reduce Petrol Costs in your area
Discussion
Paid 126p near Reading for petrol, don't know what it's like in the rest of TV&S but upon recieving the email below I thought I'd pass it on...
Not so sure about the "Buy from Tesco/Morrisons/JR Sainsbury's/etc..." as I personally don't know who supplies them...
Food for thought though given the silly prices around...
[quote="Phil Rice [mailto
hilrice@lineone.net]"]
Sent: 27 March 2010 07:27
To: 'Adam Goodfield'; 'Adam Topping '; 'Adam Wickson'; King Alex, TP-24U; 'Andy Littleford'; 'Andy Stevens'; 'Antony Brown'; 'Ben Gordon'; 'Blair Hutton'; 'Bradley Wickson'; 'Clint Walker'; 'Dan Constable'; 'Dan Jobes'; 'Ed Wilkins'; 'Fraser Johns'; 'Innes Miles'; 'James Brown'; 'James Ellison'; 'James King'; 'James Woodhams'; 'Jamie Hillier'; 'Jamie Warman'; 'Jason Hillier'; 'Jif Wilkins'; 'John Silverwood'; 'Martin Rice'; 'Matt Scull'; 'Matt Walker'; 'Matthew Tupper'; 'Michael Forward'; 'Mike Langley'; 'Nicky Warman'; 'Nigel Pyman'; 'Oli Stevens'; 'Paul Hallam'; 'Paul Rose'; 'Pete Drake'; 'Pete Roach'; 'Richard Lockyear'; 'Rob Needham'; 'Sam Brown'; 'Sean Miles'; 'Simon Rose'; 'Simon Winstone'; 'Stephen Priestnall'; 'Steve Wodecki'; 'Tom Sherman'; 'Wayne Buckland'
Subject: FW: Price war on Petrol companies
This is a campaiagn to get petrol and diesel prices reduced in this country. The idea is to target two or three companies by not buying fuel from their patrol stations. This is beginning to work in France where petrol/ diesel fell last week by 14% because Total and Elf have been targeted and nobody bought fuel from their garages. The reason for doing this is because the price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.
We are hitting 120p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with
paying 1.50 a ltr.
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.
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 three biggest oil companies ESSO BP and Shell.
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 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/Shell) 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 90p a LITRE RANGE
It's easy to make this happen. Just join this group and get all your FB
friends to join or forward as an email to everyone in your address book, and buy your petrol at Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e..
Boycott BP and Esso and Shell
[/quote]
Not so sure about the "Buy from Tesco/Morrisons/JR Sainsbury's/etc..." as I personally don't know who supplies them...
Food for thought though given the silly prices around...
[quote="Phil Rice [mailto
hilrice@lineone.net]"]Sent: 27 March 2010 07:27
To: 'Adam Goodfield'; 'Adam Topping '; 'Adam Wickson'; King Alex, TP-24U; 'Andy Littleford'; 'Andy Stevens'; 'Antony Brown'; 'Ben Gordon'; 'Blair Hutton'; 'Bradley Wickson'; 'Clint Walker'; 'Dan Constable'; 'Dan Jobes'; 'Ed Wilkins'; 'Fraser Johns'; 'Innes Miles'; 'James Brown'; 'James Ellison'; 'James King'; 'James Woodhams'; 'Jamie Hillier'; 'Jamie Warman'; 'Jason Hillier'; 'Jif Wilkins'; 'John Silverwood'; 'Martin Rice'; 'Matt Scull'; 'Matt Walker'; 'Matthew Tupper'; 'Michael Forward'; 'Mike Langley'; 'Nicky Warman'; 'Nigel Pyman'; 'Oli Stevens'; 'Paul Hallam'; 'Paul Rose'; 'Pete Drake'; 'Pete Roach'; 'Richard Lockyear'; 'Rob Needham'; 'Sam Brown'; 'Sean Miles'; 'Simon Rose'; 'Simon Winstone'; 'Stephen Priestnall'; 'Steve Wodecki'; 'Tom Sherman'; 'Wayne Buckland'
Subject: FW: Price war on Petrol companies
This is a campaiagn to get petrol and diesel prices reduced in this country. The idea is to target two or three companies by not buying fuel from their patrol stations. This is beginning to work in France where petrol/ diesel fell last week by 14% because Total and Elf have been targeted and nobody bought fuel from their garages. The reason for doing this is because the price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.
We are hitting 120p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with
paying 1.50 a ltr.
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.
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 three biggest oil companies ESSO BP and Shell.
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 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/Shell) 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 90p a LITRE RANGE
It's easy to make this happen. Just join this group and get all your FB
friends to join or forward as an email to everyone in your address book, and buy your petrol at Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e..
Boycott BP and Esso and Shell
[/quote]
Edited by GT Kodiak on Monday 29th March 10:33
Fuel has always gone up and never gone down..
When the price of Crude hit a high last year we were paying 1.20 a litre it has comedow since then but we are still paying 1.18 per litre.. Its the same tactic used by all energy companies.. put up the price as soon as the raw material goes up, but when it comes down we will not pass on all of the savings to the customer.
But 1.16 to 1.19 in knaphill.
When the price of Crude hit a high last year we were paying 1.20 a litre it has comedow since then but we are still paying 1.18 per litre.. Its the same tactic used by all energy companies.. put up the price as soon as the raw material goes up, but when it comes down we will not pass on all of the savings to the customer.
But 1.16 to 1.19 in knaphill.
The problem is the stupid bloody government.
At £1.15 a litre the breakdown is roughly 36p production costs, 4p profit, and 75p tax.
Labour government is writing cheques they can't cash, and the motorist is an easy target to recoup those costs.
Of the £40+ billion pounds we pay in road tax and fuel duty and so on, only 10% of it is actually spent on roads and transport. They use the motorist to subsidise their spending in other areas.
At £1.15 a litre the breakdown is roughly 36p production costs, 4p profit, and 75p tax.
Labour government is writing cheques they can't cash, and the motorist is an easy target to recoup those costs.
Of the £40+ billion pounds we pay in road tax and fuel duty and so on, only 10% of it is actually spent on roads and transport. They use the motorist to subsidise their spending in other areas.
Dudd said:
Great idea in theory, but where do Tesco's Morrisons etc get their petrol from? BP, Shell etc...
I still dont get the issue for the GovernmentThey have been quoted on how important fuel prices are to restoring the economy
1/2 the tax and we will all buy loads more of eveery thing and then everything could become cheaper too..
Food
Clothes
porn
DVD's
Post
Restaurants
Tours
Holidays
Taxis (not likely)
Fuel is so intrinsicly linked to modern societies economic state
just incase note to spelling Police..... place keyboard in hands and hit face until bleeding, contribution is not valued solely in spelling and grammar
Teh government is not that bothered about increasing the price.. As it lets them state they have reduced congestion.
a 10% increase in Fuel Price equates to a 4% reduction in the number of people travelling.
Also sorry to day but Road pricing is still being developed as a transport policy by the government... Labour have not dropped this way of money making its just on hold. Many of the documents i refer to are being updated by the Dft..
http://www.dft.gov.uk/webtag/documents/expert/unit...
a 10% increase in Fuel Price equates to a 4% reduction in the number of people travelling.
Also sorry to day but Road pricing is still being developed as a transport policy by the government... Labour have not dropped this way of money making its just on hold. Many of the documents i refer to are being updated by the Dft..
http://www.dft.gov.uk/webtag/documents/expert/unit...
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