[rs_cleancare]

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
 
We are hitting £1.21 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.25 a ltr. This suggestion has been sent to me:
 
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.

Rob.

[davep]

Would work but i think the supermarkets buy the petrol from ESSO and BP

[The Great One]

Hi

The big four BP, Chevron, Shell & Esso do all the drilling, refining and selling to all the other companies, so no matter who you buy it from, you buy from them.

Petrol will never be 69p a ltr again, it was 52p a ltr when Labour took over, 18 months later it had gone up by 20p.

If 300 Million people stopped buying petrol, the price will skyrocket.

Regards

Martin

[LT carpet cleaning]

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[Ian Rochester]

Theres an article in our local paper, one garage is charging £1.38 for diesel!!!!

[stevegunn]

How come crude oil went up the other day then fuel prices went up less than 24 hours later.The crude oil for making fuel is bought over a year in advance so they have it stock piled up somewhere yet we are hit in the pocket straight away.When the price of crude starts coming down the fuel prices don't drop straight away?

[M.Acorn]

Had to pay 1.30 for diesel the other day , not happy ! Gordon the moron is on his way out though i hope 

[Glynn]

They say that it's the oil companies fault yet in Dubai only last week it costs only £7 to FILL from empty a largish car !.
Who's kidding who ?.

[Karl Wildey]

(it was 52p a ltr when Labour took over, 18 months later it had gone up by 20p.)

So that makes it 72p a litre, and its actually about £1.25 a litre, if you are going to dis the labour government cos your are a tory please print some trueful facts.

Every government without fail has added money on beer, cigs, petrol and road tax, can anyone remember any government reducing the price?

A litre of petrol at £1.16 cos about 63p to produce, duty(or tax relabelled) is 50p and vat is the remainer, or they about. You can not change he production cos and vat, its the duty that needs to be changed.

[ollie]

It wont be long before America starts using nonconventional oil. They have loads of it. Its found mixed up with other stuff like sand and rock etc ..not in reservoirs like conventional oil. It costs much more to extract and process and the process is very environmentally unfriendly. It only becomes cost effective when conventional oil starts becoming more expensive to import. 

[The Great One]

(it was 52p a ltr when Labour took over, 18 months later it had gone up by 20p.)

So that makes it 72p a litre, and its actually about £1.25 a litre, if you are going to dis the labour government cos your are a tory please print some trueful facts.

Every government without fail has added money on beer, cigs, petrol and road tax, can anyone remember any government reducing the price?

A litre of petrol at £1.16 cos about 63p to produce, duty(or tax relabelled) is 50p and vat is the remainer, or they about. You can not change he production cos and vat, its the duty that needs to be changed.

Read what i actually wrote.

It was 52p a ltr when Labour took over, 18 months later it had gone up by 20p

That was when labour came into power and that was the price 18 months later, the price today in 2008 (13 years later) is £1.25.

Don't assume I am a Tory, the Tories certainly won't drop the price, under their Green disguise, they will put the price up even more and it is a tory minister whose bright idea is for us all to carry a carbon ration card.

Barking Mad.

Regards

Martin

[dan roberts]

He's brilliant, Martin for Prime Minister....

 

[The Great One]

Actually Martin Big Banana's has a nice ring to it, sort of rolls off the tounge...

[stevegunn]

Another problem with this government is the policies that the Tories introduced that labour were dead set against are still in place they have not abolished them.Why not they were dead against the poll tax but its still there