Reduce Fuel Costs

urbanmaser

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The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the labour government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase,to help make up for the financial disaster that we are in, thanks to 10 yrs under Gordan Brown first as chancellor of the exchequer and then as unelected prime minister


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

We are hitting 114.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 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 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 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!!! 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 90p 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.
 

lozcb

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Makes perfect sense to me but to enable finite monitoring there needs to be a specific start date to stop the bp esso buying , im up for it start a list Peter list list list


regards loz
 

conaero

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Can I ask the question, who supplies the supermarkets? Do Tescos get all their fuel from one supplier, or does it not work like that.
 

urbanmaser

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I think the idea is we just email to 10 people we know and so on and so forth until eventually there are enough people doing it to cause a bit of pain
 

Klive

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I don't buy from Esso or BP today so how can my efforts be recognised!
I was about to post something similar as I'm working through some tax stuff today and have seen the price increase in the standard stuff from £1/litre in June last year to £1.16 last week. 16% in 10 months, yet inflation is hovering around 3%, where's the logic?
 

GTS 08

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took the baby for a long run today.

and she just drinks the stuff.

its ridiculous - and putting in the 97 premium is a fortune.
 

lozcb

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Smugness has its price Nick , just a bit of a gutter when you know what the fuel prices are outside of europe , the Asians and Yanks must be having a right blast with masser ownership with hugely reduced petrol costs , A tankful in Thailand would be aound £30 and in the states around £45.00 Now that would really make it enjoyable


regards loz
 

GTS 08

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it would mate.

they really drink - and I was not even testing her much at all - not a cheap pastime these cars.

but ...
 

Peter

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Look at the positive side. The more expensive fuel is, the less cars will be on the road. I would gladly pay more for fuel if it means I can go for a drive on empty roads.