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The Price of Petrol... Should we pay so much.... or is it time to make a stand?!
Hell-razor
Posts: 12 Forumite
in Motoring
Hi All
Received this text below today and just wanted to share it with as many people as possible just in case we can really make a difference..?
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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 litre!!!!
(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 whimp 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 send 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
........"
Power to the people!
Received this text below today and just wanted to share it with as many people as possible just in case we can really make a difference..?
".........
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 litre!!!!
(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 whimp 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 send 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
........"
Power to the people!
Fight Back!
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Come live in Buckingham and Bicester... petrol has been at 97p per litre for a while... I WISH it was 95p!
Making a stand... right... because it made a HUGE difference the last 2 times
As for boycutting places... what's the point? The prics are high because of the riddiculous taxes applied... And besides I will NEVER put supermarket fuel in any car I won EVER again after the problems following the contaminated fuel... When I found out this is a commonly encountered problem at my local mechanics where they come across contaminated fuel from the local Tesco often...
My solution? I'm buying a more economic car that dos more miles to the gallon (nearly twice as many as my current car) DFW Nerd #025DFW no more! Officially debt free 2017 - now joining the MFW's!
My DFW Diary - blah- mildly funny stuff about my journey0 -
Since there's ~50p/l duty + vat on petrol I don't believe they can make enough money at 69p/litre to bother0
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This email has been doing the rounds for several years and has clearly made a huge difference.0
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Any boycott of fuel in Britain would last three days tops, and would stop when people realise they can't drive to their work, school, social occassions etc.."Facism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... [it] doesn't walk in saying, "our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."0
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Since there's ~50p/l duty + vat on petrol I don't believe they can make enough money at 69p/litre to bother
The 50p is only a percentage of the overall price.
If the price of petrol dropped to say 69p/litre the tax would drop to about 37p.Any boycott of fuel in Britain would last three days tops, and would stop when people realise they can't drive to their work, school, social occassions etc..
No-one has suggested not buying fuel at all, just not buying it from the 1 company till they have to drop their prices to survive. If we all switched to buying from Shell for instance BP/Esso would have to drop their prices. At which point we all switch to buying from BP/Esso and Shell will then have to drop their prices to get customers back.
It could work, but unfortunately there arent enough willing to actually do it.0 -
Petrol will soon be a luxury, only available to rich drivers. This will be done under the guise of saving the planet.0
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Nice to see such a positive bunch of people!! and we wonder why people power fails...
Thank You ispartacus75 for the favourable input, good thinking, a few more people like you and I prepared to make a stand could make a difference...
trouble is people generally are too cynical, they lack any real passion about what they truly believe in (if they actually know what that is).. and of course the big boys making all the money know this and fuel it... please excuse the pun!!
for all you who gripe about the tax on fuel...question is what are we going to do about it... well know what the problem is... BUT what is the solution?
It was an idea shared and I still think it could have and impact in time...
Fight Back!0 -
ispartacus75 wrote: »The 50p is only a percentage of the overall price.
If the price of petrol dropped to say 69p/litre the tax would drop to about 37p.
I believe you are wrong here. Fuel duty is actually applied as a fixed amount per litre. The only variable factor is the VAT as that is levied as a percentage.
Of course fuel prices are too high, and of course this is a result of the high taxes. And no, I don't like it either.
However, the money being spent on schools, hospitals, wars (insert your own priority) has to come from somewhere. Lower the duty on fuel by all means, but which tax(es) do you raise instead to make up the shortfall?
Any constructive suggestions on a postcard to Mr G Brown, 10 Downing St, London.0 -
Hell-razor wrote: »Nice to see such a positive bunch of people!! and we wonder why people power fails...
Thank You ispartacus75 for the favourable input, good thinking, a few more people like you and I prepared to make a stand could make a difference...
trouble is people generally are too cynical, they lack any real passion about what they truly believe in (if they actually know what that is).. and of course the big boys making all the money know this and fuel it... please excuse the pun!!
for all you who gripe about the tax on fuel...question is what are we going to do about it... well know what the problem is... BUT what is the solution?
It was an idea shared and I still think it could have and impact in time...
We are positive.
We are absolutely positive that this idea is a ridiculous non starter.0 -
Hell-razor wrote: »Nice to see such a positive bunch of people!! and we wonder why people power fails...
Thank You ispartacus75 for the favourable input, good thinking, a few more people like you and I prepared to make a stand could make a difference...
trouble is people generally are too cynical, they lack any real passion about what they truly believe in (if they actually know what that is).. and of course the big boys making all the money know this and fuel it... please excuse the pun!!
for all you who gripe about the tax on fuel...question is what are we going to do about it... well know what the problem is... BUT what is the solution?
It was an idea shared and I still think it could have and impact in time...
We are positive.
We are absolutley positive that this idea is a ridiculous non starter0
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