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Got sent this in an email today and though I would share it, I have emailed it on. Make your own minds up if you think this will work or not. Frankly I always buy my gas from Morrisons anyway. Quote:
Subject: Cheap Petrol
CHEAP PETROL AND DIESEL .............................
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 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 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.(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.
Ray(UK)
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Big Bore
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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My question would be...who supplies fuel to the supermarkets? They obviously don't brew it themselves. Just a thought. Another thought: buy a diesel car/bike. Run it on sunflower oil.  (Of course, you'd still have to pay tax on the sunflower oil and, like every good citizen, you *would* inform Mr.Taxman that you were using a vegetable oil for a fuel. Wouldn't you?!) Just outta curiosity, how much of that £1/litre is tax?
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Loquacious
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Just outta curiosity, how much of that £1/litre is tax?
I believe the tax has been the same for a little while - I read somewhere in the region of 85%.
Smashin'! 
Grab your ankles folks! 
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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Loquacious
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Ray,
What are the chances of the British public actually coming together and applying such pressure?
Bedouin.
Blessed are those eyes that have seen more roads than any man! (Homer).
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Loquacious
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More variations on this from last year....
Yeah Phil, looks the same.
I've seen prices hovering around £1.00 for petrol and £1.02 for diesel (did see £1.02 petrol and £1.05 diesel).
Let's make the 'Mericans a little happier with their lot ... that's roughly $9.10 per UK gallon (slightly bigger than a US gallon, but not much).
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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You might be hitting the wrong people. At the risk of sounding like a mouthpiece for the fuel companies, here's the deal here in Australia. The fuel companies explore, do seismic, drill, ship, refine, transport, market, and wholesale fuel for AU$0.65c per litre.With a claimed 0.3c profit. Our lazy, greedy, and economically deficient Government whack on AU$0.49c per litre, in tax, just 'cos they can, and more importantly, they don't have to buy their own fuel, we buy it for them. Point is, maybe your theiving elected representatives may be doing the same, therefore should be the first place to lobby. Just a thought.
Ride a Motorcycle.....not a Bandwagon.
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Greenhorn
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I've seen this type of email going around for the last 10 years. I've also seen it debated on motoring forums to the "n"th degree.
The outcome every time is that even if people did, it would make absolutely no difference, due to who supplies etc, and how a lot of companies are linked etc etc.
Now to me if I was say... Shell, and lets say, one of my employees decided to send this email out every 6 months saying how not to by from Esso or BP, well, lets just say I wouldn't stop him....
A majoroity of our petrol is Tax, again, tax has now gone up, the petrol price at the pumps goes up, and it has very little to do with the underlying price of petrol.
The best thing you can do is shop around and leave it at that. Regardless of the scares we had last year at Supermarket petrol, I've seen independant tests many times stating their juice is as good, if not BETTER in some cases than esso, bp etc.
Personally, as a consumer I make my choice to buy optimax for my bike, not because of the higher octane, but because of the detergents. Thats my choice, I pay more.
The government has, and always will, tax us in places and on items we deem nescessary for our everyday use. They will have you believe that it's a green tax and has nothing to do with the billions in revenue..... I'd support it if we had the billions ploughed back into providing a realistic cheap effective public transport system, but we don't, and we wont have.
So like most things, we have to bend over, drop our trousers and take it. Again, we have the choice to leave the country if we like too. For me, I'd rather stay here... for the time being, and as such, keep my trousers constantly around my ankles.
We live in a democracy, (although you'd find it hard to believe sometimes) If more of us used our vote, and governments came to the reaslisation that they work for US and not the other way around, we may get somewhere.
Vote with your vote, if politians lived in fear that if they pi44e3d of the general public too much, they'd be out, I think they'd think twice before half of the stuff. The problem is we still live in this insanee culture that people are viting for X because their dad did..... It's crazy.
Cheers,
JC
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the price of fuel really isnt that much different then it was when i was a teen!!! when i was a teen (many yrs ago) i was working for 50cent an hour,and the price of fuel was around 19-25cent a gal. today the min. wage(teenager wages) is around $6hr and the price of fuel is around $3 a gal. nothin has really changed. you could buy a house for 10 to 30 grand, today your lucky to get one for 100. nothing really changes except the numbers. we pay more for a gal of water then we do fuel, nobody sez a word, why?? because we only buy one at a time, when i was a teen we drank water from a spicket, we didnt pay for it?? if "they" want to get serious then why am i driveing a car that only gets 19or so mpg (v-6) and in 70 i had a v-8 buick that got 15mpg??? where is the big difference??? "they" want us paying attention to something other then what "they" are really doing. NOTHING REALLY CHANGES BUT THE NUMBERS!!!!!!!
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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War in the middle east changes the price... fuel rocketed!
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I saw Regular unleaded here today for $2.47 a gallon. It's kind of like going to a Casino. It's gamble If you don't fill up when it's low you may pay $5 more tommorrow for tank full if it goes up $.20 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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this place wants $2.50 a gal, the place closer wants $2.55 so i drive all the way over to the $2.50 place and get 20gal. what did i save a buck, a whole buck??? i tell you ,'they want us paying attention to things we have no control over while "they" are doing things to us. be afraid people be very afraid!!!!! there are only a few refineries that can only produce so much, "they" wont let us drill in alaska because we might disturb some animal??? what??? who cares??? get the oil, build some refineries, get it refined and get it to the pumps!!!! why are we not heavily dependant on solor power?? because ted kennedy dont want windmills by his house!!! thats why!!!! W.T.F. if "they" were serious things would be a lot different but "they" are not and "they" want us to be afraid. why are there not more refineries??? why are we not drilling in other places?? why are we driveing cars that dont get any better mileage then they are??? because the powers that be (the media) would have nothing to talk about!!!!!! bio-desiel??? why not??? thomas edison and firestone built a car out of the oil from hemp (which grows in about 4 months, and 1 acre does for the air what 4 acres of trees can do) and then ran it on that oil, that was back then and we are still running cars on crude??? W.T.F. gimme a break, what is plastic made from??? why are we not looking into alternitives for that??? make plastic from something else and we might have more crude???   my wife sez i can beotch all i want but all that is gonna happen is that my blood pressure will rise, so all i can do is sit back and keep my mouth shut. but i just have to laugh when this conversation comes up because i realize the price of gas is exactly what it was when i was a teen makeing 50cent an hr. nothing has changed but the numbers!!!!!!
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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the price of gas is exactly what it was when i was a teen makeing 50cent an hr. nothing has changed but the numbers!!!!!!
Exactly! My folks used to ****** about the price of gas all the time, till I presented the same arguement. Gas has caught up with everything else, the cost of living has increased across the board. The house my folks paid $40k for in the 80s, they sold for $150+ in the 90s. Econobox cars, a pinto, in the 70s could be had for what, $2000 new? A ford Fukus is how much? $12-15K. I think gas has risen by roughly the same ratios?!
Do I like it? No. Get worked up about it? No. Just keep driving my 190,000mi VW (instead of my more comfortable Jeep cherokee).
Stewart
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"It's outside your field of expertise."
"Poppycock normally is."
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in 1969 they told us there was a shortage of coffee because it had been a bad yr for the bean growers, the price went up and that went over so well they told us there was a shortage of sugar, and the price went up then by 1973 they had it figured out....there was a shortage of fuel and guess what, the price went up and we have had a shortage ever since. go figure????
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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I don't agree with building more ways of exploiting our planets resources... more methods of harnessing nature for power is the way to go. Hopefully stemming the increase in global warming. Oil is only going to last another 50-100 years anyway. We need more of THIS sort of stuff!!!!
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