Petrol Price Campaign

[Nick Harvey]

What's shown below has just floated into my e-mail system. It seems like a fairly good idea, so I post it here at least for your interest.

If you DO agree with the sentiment, please feel free to copy and paste it into an e-mail and send it on.

I don't see it can do any harm, and it MIGHT just do some good.


> Subject: FW: Petrol - how to force the price down.

> Suppose there's a possibility that this guy has a point?

> 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.
>
> 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. (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,
> Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.
>
> POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

[Jamez]

Yes, but who do you think supplies Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys with petrol? The petrol fairies?

Nope.

It's the big names such as Esso, BP & Texaco. They just flog the supermarkets lower grade fuels at SLIGHTLY cheaper prices.

The only thing people can really do to hurt the oil companies is to get your car converted to LPG for around £500. 40ppl for LPG - less than half the current price.

[johnnyboy]

I can't really see this doing much good.

First, 68% of the price of fuel goes to Gordon Brown. So, if the price of petrol does reach £1.00, then the oil companies, shipping firms, refining companies and petrol stations have 32p to share between them. Protests should be directed at the Government primarily - business commentators have speculated that the fuel protests of 2000 have saved the motorist 20p per gallon in extra tax as a result.

Second, as oil is a commodity, it is the international money markets which determine the price. There is only a 1m barrel a day spare capacity in the system, and the demand from China and India is expected to swallow that spare capacity in the next 3 years. See Peak Oil for more...

The end of cheap energy is here, Metropollers.

Hence, I am going to unsticky this thread as it is pointless, intellectually challenged and not deserving of it. So there.

[J.Christie]

Let's Protest!

DROP PRICES

I'd call it a day, see ya tomorrow.

[James H]

Let's Protest!

DROP PRICES

I'd call it a day, see ya tomorrow.

When you drive, then you can protest.

[Nick Harvey]

Yes, but who do you think supplies Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys with petrol? The petrol fairies?

I'm not going to enter into a lengthy discussion on this one.

As I said at the top, feel free to send the details on IF you agree.

I would, however, make just the one point about Jamez' comment and that's that if we don't buy from BP and Esso stations, then their marketing people will question whether the SITE is worth retaining; if we don't buy from Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys stations, it's those supermarkets which will wonder whether to retain the sites, NOT the fairies who supply them.

In reply to johnnyboy, seeing as I was out indulging in life between my first and second post in this thread, I hadn't even realised it had been "sticky'd" in the first place. It certainly isn't worth that high a status, but if anyone DOES want to join in and send it on, please feel free.

[johnnyboy]

In reply to johnnyboy, seeing as I was out indulging in life between my first and second post in this thread, I hadn't even realised it had been "sticky'd" in the first place. It certainly isn't worth that high a status, but if anyone DOES want to join in and send it on, please feel free.

Nick, I'm not suggesting that you stickied it for a second. I don't see how you could have.

[chinajan]

I don't see how this campaign can help.

Shortage of refinery capacity is the current concern. And BP's Thunderhorse platform was damaged in hurricanes recently. Add to that the fact that, ultimately, there is a finite amount of oil out there and you can see it does come down to good old supply and demand. No matter where you buy your petrol. We really do need to invest hugely in research for alternatives.

Hi JB, by the way. See you soon x

[johnnyboy]

I don't see how this campaign can help.

Shortage of refinery capacity is the current concern - BP's Thunderhorse platform was damaged in hurricanes recently. Add to that the fact that, ultimately, there is a finite amount of oil out there and you can see it does come down to good old supply and demand. No matter where you buy your petrol. We really do need to invest hugely in research for alternatives.

Hi JB, by the way. See you soon x

Friday 2nd September - looking forward to it, sweetie!

[Spencer For Hire]

If it's of any interest, Tesco now appear to be giving out petrol vouchers with shopping receipts. After spending just over £60 in store on Thursday, I got a 5p off per litre voucher, allowing me to buy my petrol for 82.9p per litre...

[Pete]

so they are copying the old safeway system now morrisons have butchered it