lower petrol prices

[anonomouse]

I'm not one to forward chain type mail, because I hate it! But I thought this way you can decide for yourselves without having to suffer the emails....

If you agree with it forward it to your mates that might not be PistonHeads!!!!!


For all you drivers!

Just a thought!
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, (whoever he is) 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 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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

[manek]

Right. This one. Again...

[Roadrunner]

One small problem. If a particular garage recieves a huge increase in demand they will see it as a good opportunity to balance things out with a price rise. There's always a flip side.

[mr_tony]

And given that over 80% of the cost of a litre or thereabouts is actually tax, then doing the maths quickly shows you that in order to take an 89p litre to 69p is going to require a reduction in tax. Either that or oil companies and garages are going to have to charge nothing for providing petrol. And thats likely isn't it.

[pistol pete]

Yep.. this one again..

I can see where you are (he is) coming from.. But, I use at least 2 tanks a week - usually from shell owned garages 'cos I've got an old wreck and it seems to go slightly better on shell - don't ask.. Skint, starving student-rebuilt engine in the snow on parents driveway - not ideal.

All the fuel round here comes out of the same plant at Grangemouth, so as far as the fuel companies are conserned it doesn't make any differance where it is bought. The problem is that the government should lower tax, not the oil companies to lower prices.

I still think that the only effective method to reduce fuel prices was the fuel blockade. We just have to put up with the side effects of it (no fuel).