Fuel prices - Lets do something!

blue2262

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Below is a copy of an e mail I have received, what do people think, is it worth trying?

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 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


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This email didn't originally come from the sales&marketing department at Shell/Asda/Tesco/Sainsburys/Morrisons, did it?
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yes and no , i know that when i get fuel i drive pass 3 garages to go to the esso as my car does more miles to the gallon on esso fuel compired (sp) with tesco,jet and the likes. esso is usually 1p more a litre than the other 3 garages.
 
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thats all very well, but the majority of the price is TAX.

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Exactly. Its the government who are screwing us on petrol prices, far far more than the petrol companies themselves.
 
Petrol companies only get approx 35p out of each litre we buy. The seller takes a small profit. The rest goes into the greedy government coffers. They are ones that need tackling.
 
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Petrol companies only get approx 35p out of each litre we buy. The seller takes a small profit. The rest goes into the greedy government coffers. They are ones that need tackling.

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They certainly are
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would like to know what happened to all the farmers etc that kicked up a stink last time,fuel prices are way above what they were then and you hear nothing??
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If people were really feeling the pinch then the carparks and tills at Lakeside and BlueWater and places like that would be empty - but they aren't

The only people with the muscle to tackle the gov. are the likes of Tescos and Sainsburys - the day that the out of town supermarket car parks stay empty because of fuel prices is the day that the tide may turn - until then any 'protest' that the little people like us make would be like a fly buzzing and would be swatted as such by the gov.
 
Yes, cut the fuel tax and prices would halve :

2007 Fuel Tax Figures
2007 fuel duty (as of 1 October 2007) in the United Kingdom is:

* 50.35 pence per litre for ultra-low sulphur unleaded petrol/diesel
* 53.65 pence per litre for conventional unleaded petrol
* 56.94 pence per litre for conventional diesel
* 30.35 pence per litre for bio-diesel and bio ethanol - low tax to encourage consumer conversion
* 16.49 pence per kg for gas other than natural gas (LPG)
* 13.70 pence per kg for natural gas used as road fuel.
* 9.69 pence per litre for rebated gas oil (red diesel)
* 9.29 pence per litre for rebated fuel oil


As of 1 October 2007 effective rates of duty for non-road fuels increased by 2 ppl. These rates are set to be increased by the same percentage as the main road fuels on 1 April 2008 and again on 1 April 2009.

From 1 October 2007 duty rates for unleaded petrol, leaded petrol, aviation gasoline and other heavy oil used as road fuel were increased by the same percentage as the main road fuels.
 
Thankyou forester, very enightening.

I have just been quoted 60.4p per litre for heating oil.
Diesel is £1.33 near to where I live.
 
Where I am Tesco is more expensive than ESSO..it's now 116.9 at Tesco doing my bloody head in - £160 so far this month just on PETROL and I'm the type you'd swear at for going to slow! ridiculous, can't wait to move nearer to the yard.
 
well i think we should still try the boycot idea, at the end of the day something has to change, we all moan about the price but we're not doing anything constructive. Yes the government put high tax on fuel, theres little we can do at present to influence them, but lets not forget that the oil companies made mahooosive profits in the last few years so there's no reason for the fuel to go up in price, they just want even bigger profits.
Come on lets try to do something at least...
 
Something has to be done - our local Esso garage today is selling diesel at 128.00!! Its going up about 2/3p a week. As everyone is saying when did we all get a pay rise - let alone the % that fuel is going up! I don't personally have horsey transport but this is going to hit the industry really hard and turn the sport for the elite - again.....
 
The trouble is the very people who protested last time all get letters saying that if they protested again (usually haulage companies) that there licences would be taken off them!!! Do we not have any writes in this country if we were in france or italy the whole country would have come to a standstill with ports ect being blocked, if we all did something to protest then there would be nothing they can do, but there will always be people who wont do it!!! The thing is the Gov takes a % of a barrel of oil and then again from the forcourt, so the more a barrel costs the more the gov makes so surely they could cut the duty at the forecourt, but why would they we are mugs and pay it!!!!!!
 
Oil companies do not set oil prices, they are set by the free market, based on supply, demand, and global politics. When prices are high, oil companies can invest in new projects. When prices are low, companies can't afford to spend the multi-billions of dollars required.

The reason we pay so much more for fuel in the UK is that fuel is very heavily taxed here.

The place to apply pressure is to government.
 
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