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[mrgreen]

hi all got this email yesterday and even though i don't fill up at either of these i think it's a great idea:

Please see what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
We are hitting £129.9 a litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 per litre. So 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 - not sellers control the market place. 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) i.e. 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 all 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 8 days!!! 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 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
 

 

[tunnie]

who do you think supplies Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons 

Been around for years that idea, will never work in real world

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

[mrgreen]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

but there must be something in it as these companies make billions a day?

[tunnie]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

but there must be something in it as these companies make billions a day?

Millions yes, not billions. How much does a pint of beer cost?

£3? £2.50 in country?

Petrol companies, build oil rings, send them out to Sea, dig a hole maybe find oil, move rig again, dig another hole, pump the oil out, put in  a tanker, ship it around the world have it refined, ship it around the world again, refine it some more, stick in a tanker truck, drive to the stations they build and maintain, for about 40p a litre.

What else can you get for a 40p a litre? sod all!!! -  Pepsi costs more!

They make billions because the demand is there, but what inflates our prices is the tax. Thats what needs to be targeted, not the oil companies.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

but there must be something in it as these companies make billions a day?

Not from selling fuel they don't

It is from the crude oil being pumped up, at huge, enormous, cost and very large quantities that actually returns a nice profit eventually. 8-) 8-)

[mrgreen]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

but there must be something in it as these companies make billions a day?

Not from selling fuel they don't

It is from the crude oil being pumped up, at huge, enormous, cost and very large quantities that actually returns a nice profit eventually. 8-) 8-)

sorry didn't realise they are in another business

[mrgreen]

yes i do realise the government taxes the hell out of fuel, oh well just an idea next time i won't share

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

but there must be something in it as these companies make billions a day?

Not from selling fuel they don't

It is from the crude oil being pumped up, at huge, enormous, cost and very large quantities that actually returns a nice profit eventually. 8-) 8-)

sorry didn't realise they are in another business

Of course they make a (small) margin from the 47p you pay for a litre, after selling costs of retailing, taking maybe around 4.5p per litre, and the distribution, refining, exploration expenditure comes out of that remaining!

However, the crude oil sold to third parties produces the bulk of their profits as in the case of these latest figures released by Shell:

"Financial results show that in 2010, Royal Dutch Shell reaped the benefits of higher production, coupled with higher oil prices, which saw net profit soar to US $18.6 billion from US $9.8 billion in 2009.

During 2010, the company increased production by 5% to 3.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, while sales of liquefied natural gas rose 25%. Shell also spent US $7 billion on acquisitions and US $3 billion on exploring activities.

Peter Voser, the chief executive of Shell, has promised investors that there is “more to come” as the company has just signed a range of new deals with Qatar and Brazil. These are in-line with a goal by 2012 to have increased oil production 11% compared to 2009."

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

yes i do realise the government taxes the hell out of fuel, oh well just an idea next time i won't share

Please do not take our reactions badly, it is just that older motorists like me have seen these campaigns mooted for at least the last 25 years, if not 30 years!   

[TheBoy]

Its an email address harvester, using chain mail as the propogater.

The best thing to do is NOT forward it, simply delete it.


Remember, the vast majority of the cost is tax. Petrol is actually quite cheap without tax.

[Del Boy]

We have been here so often before!

To start with it is NOT ESSO, BP, or any other petrol company that really make a difference to the price we pay!  It is the Governments tax that has ALWAYS in our life times made the fuel "not cheap"!  In addition the fuel supplied to the main supermarkets comes from the major oil companies refineries, and that fuel is now the same price as everyone else's.

So any boycott of ESSO and BP garages, or any others, will have no effect, as these boycotts never have when tried over decades!  All you do is inconvenience ourselves, and as I have found ESSO unleaded ideal for my V6 I have no intention of boycotting, especially as it is the same price as the supermarkets around here.

My opinion yes, but you are whistling in the wind.

Take on the Government if you like, but apart from them maybe holding back on the April fuel duty increase, they will not budge as you may have heard the country has no spare cash due to the last Labour government!!

 

Partly yes, also due to the current government. 

[millwall]

yes i do realise the government taxes the hell out of fuel, oh well just an idea next time i won't share

ok no worries

[the alarming man]

yes i do realise the government taxes the hell out of fuel, oh well just an idea next time i won't share

ok no worries