Reducing Petrol/Diesel Prices

[chris9119]

This would work........

This seems like a good idea to be repeated....

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 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 isif 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 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 8days!!!

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

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.

[datalas]

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This has been discussed once or twice before, and personally I don't think it would work, still...

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=10975&highlight=esso

[beast5680]

anyone who watches the tankers come out of their depots will know that BP and esso are 2 different companies and they supply all the supermarkets anyway so they wont lose

[TimM]

I've seen the tankers loading up too, you can have a queue of tankers all with different names on the sides who all fill there tanks from the same point (i.e. the same company) then they stop just down the road and you can see them add about 1litre of 'special formula' to make there fuel distinctive - like 1 litre in a lorry full makes any difference!

If you stop using one company the fuel supplier will not notice as he will just fill 999 lorries instead of 1000 that day.

Tim.

[muddyweb]

If you stop using one company the fuel supplier will not notice as he will just fill 999 lorries instead of 1000 that day.

It's not even that good...   he'll just fill 1000 *different* lorries.. the amount of fuel used won't change.

[ChrisW]

Interesting reading
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/exxon.html

[thermidorthelobster]

There are many problems with this idea, one of the most fundamental being that

most of the cost of fuel is tax - about 80%.

So the retailers aren't the people you need to speak to, it's the government.

In Iran, petrol is 2p/litre, and diesel is 0.5p/litre, so don't assume the oil companies are making so much money out of retailing fuel.  If you speak to an independent fuel retailer (before they all go out of business) you'll learn just how little they make on selling the product;  the wholesalers are making more, but it's the government which is taking most of the cash.

There are other reasons this wouldn't work, including that if Esso and BP drop their prices, nobody in their right mind would follow suit, because they're still selling fuel.  Sorry, but...