Rising fuel costs

[kimandsally]

Please read this e mail I recieved tonight, I had the same idea and mentioned it on here 2 weeks ago I did nothing more about it, someone has done it for us, now we can either try it and see what happens or not bother and we know what will happen.


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

[onzarob]

I do feel that BP and ESSO make there money at the refinery stage and not at the pumps. ie it doesn't matter who you buy the fuel from they have probably refined it

Then only real way to hit them is not buy it, which is unfeasible

[kimandsally]

I do feel that BP and ESSO make there money at the refinery stage and not at the pumps. ie it doesn't matter who you buy the fuel from they have probably refined it

Then only real way to hit them is not buy it, which is unfeasible

It would still hit them paying to have 1000's of garages open everyday selling nothing bound to cost them something and more important show them we have had enough.

[MalcQV]

Yep Rob you are right. Sorry Kimandsally, but this is just chain mail.

[onzarob]

I was talking with the local independent garage, and he makes 1p per litre on fuel so thats say 60p per fill up.....that not alot of money. The profit is made long before the pump

They stay in business because they sell Cars...very nice cars at that...MalcQV they have shiny Ferrari's

[kimandsally]

Yep Rob you are right. Sorry Kimandsally, but this is just chain mail.

I know it's chainmail etc etc but I can easily buy as per the demo and so can a lot of other people I know companies have accounts and cannot but if we do nothing we all know it will continue.

What effort would it take to just not buy from them and then see if does make a difference?

If not any other idea's that will do something constructive or do we just let it carry on?

Come on Malc your an intelligent guy and a lot of people on here listen to you, alone you can make a difference.

[kimandsally]

I was talking with the local independent garage, and he makes 1p per litre on fuel so that say 60p per fill up.....that not alot of money. The profit is made long before the pump

They stay in business because they sell Cars...very nice cars at that...MalcQV they have shiny Ferrari's

That is what they all are saying my father in law owned a small 6 pump garage up till 5 years ago and he was on 9p a litre back then, he laughs saying when fuel was 30p a litre we told people we made 1p per litre and yet people are so gullable they think that in 10-15 years we still only make the same 1p per litre, his laughing point was that Tesco sell fuel at a 4p litre loss if you spend £50 on shopping, we are a gullable lot arn't we

[onzarob]

we told people we made 1p per litre and yet people are so gullable

that may be so, But i saw the receipt from the fuel supplier he was making 1.2p the be precise.

15 years ago i was 21 and paying around 50p per litre. i think its the 20pence a litre difference raise in a year thats hard to swallow

[kimandsally]

that may be so, But i saw the receipt from the fuel supplier he was making 1.2p the be precise.

15 years ago i was 21 and paying around 50p per litre. i think its the 20pence a litre difference raise in a year thats hard to swallow

The price of 10-15 years ago was my idea of what the fuel cost might be well out, but the fact remains he was making 9p a litre I might be able to obtain his reciepts if I do I will will post them on here if he doesn't object.

The tesco is also fact they do not lose on fuel I have shares in Tesco as I'm sure many other forum members do the end of year results do not show any loses that's for sure.

I have no idea how the garage can only make 1.2p per litre as haulage companies get a better discount than that on fuel cards a local haulage company who only has 7 lorries gets a discount the amount I don't know at this time but I can find out for tomorrow as my friend does the accounts.

With all the objections and not a single person who wants to do anything is there no wonder the prices go up, I have never seen a positive comment on here regarding fuel pricing, I personally don't care I can afford it and I work from home so it doesn't cost me extra to go to work I feel for the people who can't afford it that's why I bother to try to do something.
But unless someone on here takes my view I might as well not reply I'm just wasting my time I can earn some money to pay for the fuel instead.

[adamss24]

My personal opinion is to go out in the streets and do destructive things: burn shops, set councils on fire and DVLA compounds, where they tow your car if it does not have a tax or you parked in the wrong spot ! That would make a big difference ! All you brits do is just moan and do nothing about it ! Then they just put a little more grease to ease the pain, when they bend you over ! I have not seen a such lack of solidarity between people of the same nation like in you and i have been living and travelling troughout europe for years. Thats why you brits work the longest hours in Europe, have the highest mortgage and interest rates, so you cannot think much. The country does not want you to think much, just pay the council tax bills and obey the law !