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[Wooster]

I was just sent an interesting mail on how to lower fuel prices...

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



We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with
paying £1 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 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 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 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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!!

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

I think there's fair bit of public conditioning going on by big business tbh..
Interesting plan though, eh? 

[Thermalsig]

Yeah, it's a different sort of plan. The big factor in this is that a lot of the smaller fuel companies don't necessarily provide equitable fuels. I know that over here, some of the smaller companies have quality issues that range from shoddy additives, issues related to the truck container's not being clean(dirty fuels) to gasoline that is of an older age. That means fuels with less octane(fuel knocks) and dirty fuel filters. It's not a widespread problem, but you can be taking your chances with an off brand provider. I would like to see fuel prices drop, but it's not going to happen here 'till we get more refineries on line. That's the biggest cause of higher fuel prices here. There's certainly no shortage of fuel as some would like us to believe.

[Wooster]

I think the term 'smaller' is relative, Shell is a huge company in it's own right..(profits of around the £20Bn mark)..

[AbaddonsFury]

I'm paying between $1.14 and $1.30 per litre for my car, VS Holden Commodore V6 3.8, depending on the day of the week.  My wifes Toyota Landcruiser 4.5 (6 cyl) runs on LPG and petrol, LPG is around 52c to 64c per litre, my Harley runs on a mixture of aviation fuel and premium unleaded, fucken expensive....

[keasy]

I like shell and Jet better than Esso and BP anyway.


Shell mixed with Jet is a great mix.

and Shell Diesel Extra from Aberdeen is somehow better than others 

[Thermalsig]

Jet as in jet fuel? Diesel's are making a come back this year with the new 50 state legal emissions. I hope they do well. It's very difficult to find diesel autos right now. Hallcat would love to have a diesel Jetta, there just hard to get.

[Centurion]

In the UK so many petrol stations have closed down it's hard to choose between one and the other.By me there was seven up till last year - now we have Asda & one Esso.

[corrodedmonkee]

I just get the Tesco 98 RON stuff anyway, since it's the best stuff you can get around my way... better than V-Power/Ultimate etc... and cheaper too... V-Power is like 104.9 here, Tesco 98 is 98.9

[OMARK]

will the big companies really be that bothered about folks not buying from them?

yes.

will they then lower their price?

no

the most probable outcome is that they will simply have to adjust, that means raise, the price of the wholesale fuel which you buy from the smaller companies. once those prices have risen and the market balance has returned to the normal state, do you think they will lower the prices??

not fucking likely.

these "people"/companies can hold entire nations to ransom. the governments of the western world rely on the tax dollars from fuel sooo much that they cannot touch these companies. all they have to do is raise their prices or stop shipping crude and your countrty will be bought to its knees within two weeks. and i havent even mentioned what OPEC can do to us.......

[Wooster]

Aye, you're right enough..

We can fuck them around a bit though...

[keasy]

That's the kind of fear these companies want to instil in you though

After a few weeks the government's would soon show us all that hydrogen car they have kept secret so long and start taxing us on water.
 

[Wooster]

Morrisons in Wishaw is selling unleaded @ 90p per litre, apparently there was something in the papers about a concerted effort to lower the prices in Scotland, but I can't find anything online about it..

[Wooster]

It's right enough..

They are 6p per litre cheaper than Shell and 7p cheaper than BP.. 


Even Diesel is cheaper I think @ 92.9p

[Gator]

This is relevant from the Aussie side of the world:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/lower-petrol-prices-linked-to-inquiry-nrma/2007/09/02/1188671798769.html

They announced an inquiry into fuel prices and the bottom suddenly fell out of the oil market it seems. We were paying $1.50+ per litre and it is now around $1.20 per litre. The fuel companies are notorious for price gouging here.