Petrol E-mail

[Angus]

I've received a couple of these e-mails in the last few days.

I would have posted in cars and bikes, but I reckon the price of petrol affects more than just the enthuiasts

I'm not normally one to send this sort of thing on, but this time I
> think it's actually worth it.
>
>
> >
> > We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. ant petrol >
> prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.
> >
> >
> > 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 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 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.
>
> > 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 whimp
>
> > 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 THREEMILLION 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!!!
> 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
> >
> > Action:
> >
> > It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
> > >
> petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p)Jet etc. i.e. >
> boycott BP and Esso.

Now is it just me, or is everyone forwarding this missing a point??

Sainsburys, Morrisons and Tescos don't make their own petrol.

They buy it from the people that we're supposed to boycott. It's hardly going to work surely.

Especially when the oil companies make more money from wholesale than they could ever make from retail

[silent ben]

Not only that, only 10p of what you spend is profit for the company, and for that you get shelter from the rain, someone to talk to, a warm room and use of a working pump. If anything needs to happen, tax has to come down.

Ben

[megah0]

The price of oil is difficult to alter, its price is not only determined by supply and demand but also a myriad of other factors such as terrorist threat etc.

Tbh the only people who can alter the price of fuel are the people who levy the taxes on it, this is the government. Targeting specific fuel resellers is pointless, the profit margin on fuel is tiny but the tax earnings from it are enormous.

[Skii]

Its Gordon arseface Brown people need to be moaning at - not Shell

[TiG]

Yep Skii is right here, its not the companies that are the problem, its whatever the stupid amount of tax that is on petrol that is the problem, Some 75%+ of cost of petrol is to us the Tax payer, thats where the majority of the cost comes from.

Higher petrol prices make everything more expensive, food deliveries to shops cost petrol to get it there, its knock on effect of petrol being expensive is immense, not just to us but to businesses as well.

TiG

[Angus]

How about a new suggestion.

Everybody parks their car outside downing street.

In fact get all the lorry drivers - they're the ones worst hit - to park up at strategic places around London.

Then see what happens

[malfunction]

I'm not saying that this isn't down to the government as it obviously is but if a protest is to be carried out it's better done against the people of the country - causes more fuss and makes it more likely that something will be done about it IMHO (though whatever happens expect it to be a token measure). If they blocked up central London / downing street I imagine they'd call in the army or impound the vehicles or something... Would be interesting to watch though.

[Twigman]

Yeah but how are they going to impound 50 artics outside downing street? What are the army going to do? Sure they can move them, but its will take ages, and would be great to see.