Action To Get Cheaper Fuel

markT_2

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

We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 2.00 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 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

Cardew

markT wrote: »

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

Well if it is that easy, we should hold out until they lower it to one shilling and sixpence a gallon which is what my Grandfather said he paid!

I don't suupose oil at $128 a barrel has anything to do with petrol prices.

I know we should get the Chancellor to take off all taxes off petrol.

We could shut down all NHS hospitals and make people pay to go to the Nuffield private hospital to compensate.

Or

Stop all Social Security payments - especially disability allowances - that will go down well on the Benefits Forum of MSE;

Ken68

The real answer, Mark is to pack up owning a vehicle, and push for more buses and cheaper taxis.And let the train take the strain.
Too many cars, not enough roads, too much pollution.
The environment needs an inc rease in petrol duty not less.

Markyt

markT wrote: »

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE

How many more times are idiots going to post this carp? Sell it below cost? Why would they do that? And what idiot thinks there are 300 million people in the UK?

And the user name is nothing to do with me.

markT_2

Thanks for your insight on this issue “MarkyT”, I am obviously an “idiot” as you stated twice,You felt the need to highlight the inaccurate statement that 300 million live here,
well done!! your obviously a deep thinker.good work there!!


and the user name is nothing to do with me

savemoney

You said it

This is as old as the hills and people believe they can make a difference, if only that was true I would gladly eat humble pie

markT wrote: »

I am obviously an “idiot”

Browntoa

must have been 3 or 4 days since we last saw this same thing posted on the forum

http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/boycott_petrol_stations.html

savemoney

Yea I never heard of this before :rolleyes:

I wish I had £1 every time I seen this rubbish posted

Browntoa

http://www.dailyfueleconomytip.com/common-sense/stop-sending-those-dont-buy-gas-emails/

Thanks to the recent run-up in gas prices, many of our email accounts have become cluttered with chain emails asking us to boycott major gasoline stations on a certain date in the future. The reason being, we’re !!!!ed about having to pay so much for gas and if we all band together for one day and refuse to buy gas, we’re supposedly going to cost the major gas companies billions of dollars and force them to drop the price of gas.
For those of you who continually forward these emails to everyone on your contact list, please stop. This is one of the most ridiculous ideas out there and it would never work.
There are plenty of extremely logical and obvious reasons why this tactic would never work, yet most of us tend to overlook these as we focus on trying to place blame for the nearly 40% jump in the price of gas since the end of February. As is usually the case, logic tends to take a backseat to emotion.
That being said, I’m going to try my best to explain why this idea won’t ever work in the real world and why you should automatically delete any emails like this that you may receive.
The first (and most obvious) reason is you are simply delaying the purchase of the gasoline you need; we’re not actually decreasing the demand for gas (which might bring the prices down), we’re just shifting the demand to another day in the very near future.
For example, let’s say that 100,000,000 people decide to join this boycott, which causes 1,000,000,000 fewer gallons of gasoline to be purchased on that particular day. In theory, this would cost the major gas and oil companies about $3 billion in revenue.
However, you mean to tell me that during the next couple of days that those 100,000,000 people aren’t going to go back to the gas stations to purchase the gas that they didn’t buy the day they were boycotting? Of course they’re going to; they still need all that gasoline in order to get to work, drive the kids to soccer practice, etc.
There wasn’t a drop in demand, just a shift in demand - which means that the gas companies don’t actually lose the $3 billion in revenue, they just get it within the next couple of days.
The second reason is if for some insane reason this boycott tactic actually worked and did cause the gas companies to lose money, do you actually think that these companies would lower prices to gain back the small percentage of their total annual revenue that they lost? I highly doubt it.
The more likely scenario would be these companies would actually slightly RAISE prices in order to try and collect some of the money that they may have lost.
Hopefully it has become pretty obvious that the only way we’re going to be able to save money on our car’s gasoline is to reduce the demand for gasoline by driving less and driving more fuel efficient vehicles. It’s not going to come by some crazy scenario where we boycott gasoline stations for one arbitrary day.
So on that note, please take me off of your spam list.

Ken68

I have mixed feelings about consumer action. It seems wrong to blackmail a company to get the prices down, yet trade unions have been doing similar things for years and advancing their members to a better lifestyle.
The promotion of better products by Trading Standards and Health and Safety ought to be the way forward.
Maybe as long as there is proper price competition doesn't matter.

Poppycat

Its never been fare as long as a cartel keeps, production low, prices high. Its the same with diamonds to prices are kept high because its restricted by the worlds biggest players