A Plan to Reduce UK Petrol Prices

grendawkin

This is going the rounds - don’t know if it will be successful, but the theory sounds OK - I'll give it a try anyway - db

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.

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 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.(oh, 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, Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

scheming_gypsy

oh great.. another hair brained plan that'll have all the success of a sunroof in a spaceship

grendawkin

A typical negative reply from Gypsy whatever.

Well I am sure with your obvious intelligence and superior intellect you will have a much better idea, so please enlighten us all.

Or is your cunning plan to ROLL OVER & KEEP PAYING THE INCREASES?
:T

Mr_Skint_2

grendawkin wrote:

A typical negative reply from Gypsy whatever.

Well I am sure with your obvious intelligence and superior intellect you will have a much better idea, so please enlighten us all.

Or is your cunning plan to ROLL OVER & KEEP PAYING THE INCREASES?
:T

Whos the the one being patronised? I mean maybe some of your intelligence should of come into play and realised this now about the forth post of this tripe.

Search before you post. :rolleyes:

grendawkin

Well Mr Skuit, excuse me for living, I must remember to check with you sir before any more posts.
Meanwhile.....GET STU***D

scheming_gypsy

how about the fact that petrol price increases are due to the price on crude oil. If we stopped buying from the big companies they'd have to raise their prices to cover the losses they'd suffered which would result in the Supermarkets increasing their prices to cash in.
Over inflated petrol prices is the result of us getting taxed stupid on it..

Mr_Skint_2

grendawkin wrote:

Well Mr Skuit, excuse me for living, I must remember to check with you sir before any more posts.
Meanwhile.....GET STU***D

Aaah dont cry, boo hoo hoo Oh and its Mr Skint,,, GRENDORKIN BOG OFF


:rotfl:

blue_haddock

This had been posted on pretty much every site i visit and the reaction is always the same - idea is great but it just won't work.

Jonni2bad

grendawkin wrote:

......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.


.............It's easy to make this happen....buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

OK, I see a couple of problems with the theory here.

This suggests that if we all avoid ESSO and BP stations and use Supermarkets, then ESSO and BP will put their prices down, and the Supermarkets would follow suit.

If Supermarkets are selling as fast as they can supply (with this new increased trade) why would they want to lower their prices? They would only follow suit if they thought they would be worse off leaving the price as it was. But if your theory was right, then people would not jump ship until the price was circa 70p / L

I think it more likely (just my opinion) that their prices would rise to counter lost sales - as posted by scheming_gypsy

Secondly, it also assumes that ESSO and BP are not the actual supplier to these Supermarkets anyway. Do you think Tesco have their own refinery? They all buy their petrol from the big boys, so this means that avoiding ESSO and BP stations would in fact harm.... the station owner, sometimes these are franchised, so it's the individual you would put out of business, not BP / ESSO.

I don't have the master plan, but that doesn't mean that this must work by default. If anything, I think the government were / are more scared of the effects of road blockades than something like this.

Up the farmers!!! (erm.. not literally)

Katgoddess

The supermarkets get their fuel from the same place as Esso and BP. They just use different tankers. They fuel companies won't care because they are still selling their fuel.