Petrol prices !

[npikey]

Got this email, any one else seen it ??

makes sense but doubt if the majority will do it,


See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
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> We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced
> with paying 2.00 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
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> 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!
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> 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:
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> 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!!
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> 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 i t 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... ..
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> THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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> 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
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> 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
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> Stuart Hill
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> Managing Director
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> DDI: 0115 9766320 Mobile : 07970
> 253993
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> Tel: 0115 950 6722
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> Fax: 0115 958 8149
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> Web: www.skerritt.co.uk

[RS2000&MEXICO]

i already buy mine from shell as they are the cheapest around here
but i'm up for that...

[Martin]

I use Tesco whenever I can, but anything to stop this price increase is worth a try.

[Escortosis]

69p a litre? I think he must be high on petrol fumes.

Once the other forecourts realise the monopoly they now have they will put their prices up - petrol is price inelastic as there are no substitutes.

These protests dont work, you are wasting your time (but nice to see someone trying I suppose), OPEC need to increase production to lower prices, but the problem with doing this is that too many industries hinge on oil prices, it would cause far reaching ramifications by simply producing excessive amounts of oil - it's a fine balance.

The government could reduce tax on it but they wont because they would lose too much money.

Sorry to be a killjoy buts that's the way it is.

Ray

[Banishit]

£1.24 in tescamos here £1.21 in asda at the mo was £1.18 last week

[johnylock]

email !

ive had that email also ! can understand what there trying to do but it wont happen ! if you need the go go juice then you got to buy it

[POO505R]

country

This country is going down hill fast

[TugsW]

> For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest
> oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP .

A few floors to this plan:-

Esso (ExonMobile) and BP are not the same company

The e-mailer must assume that that each oil company owns all its own up stream assets (crude oil drilling etc) and down stream assets (refineries,petrol stations, lube oils etc ) .

BP sold its refining assets (Grangemouth and Croyton), so it sells cude oil to a refinery then buys refined products back from the refinery just like all Garage forcorts do. So BP or Esso will still be making £££££ from selling there cude.

Nice idea though....

[RS2000EXPRESS]

The government need to do their bit as well by reducing the tax on fuels, or else there is a chance the country will end up in the pits! If they don't then we can show our disaproval by not voting for them again.

[custom219v]

Saw this a while ago and I've stuck buy it, however its not going to come down and once we allowed it to break the £1.00 a ltr mark we opened the door to massive rises. Added to this the U.K is a very small part of the market where fuel sales are concerned. The only way prices will fall is if demand falls and that will only happen with the production of alternative fuels/transport. Face facts we is being rogered! No offence ment to any one called Roger.