heres a way to get petrols prices down // pass this around

[smirnoff_rules]

I received this today and seemed to me to be a good idea; see what you think!



The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

We are hitting 114.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 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 90p 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.

[gmb45]

i just sent it to 25, i always get mine from morrisons, asda and tescos any way

[Meat-Head]

brilliant idea, over the next few weeks at garages all around the country, the call count of
phone calls like this will be increased

"Hello mate, my Sieerrra not running well, what's wrong with it"
or "My Shassho won't do more than 110 Mph"

That's because your running on cheap crap supermaket fuel, you fool!

DK Rocks

[DJSimo]

BUT the BP refinerys supply Asda and Esso refinerys supply Tesco, so BP & ESSO win either way!!!!

[badapple]

brilliant idea, over the next few weeks at garages all around the country, the call count of
phone calls like this will be increased

"Hello mate, my Sieerrra not running well, what's wrong with it"
or "My Shassho won't do more than 110 Mph"

That's because your running on cheap crap supermaket fuel, you fool!

DK Rocks

You are right Meat-Head, the quality of petrol/diesel does matter. Tesco, Asda, Morrisons sell cheap shite fuel which is bad for your vehicles, we NEVER use these cheap suppliers as it fcuks up your vehicle.
We always use Shell stations even tho they are always a few pence more expensive but the quality of fuel is very good and it gives on average 50 miles per tank more.

So this option of using small cheap suppliers is not viable as you are deffo going to have problems with your vehicle in the long run.

[DJSimo]

You are right Meat-Head, the quality of petrol/diesel does matter. Tesco, Asda, Morrisons sell cheap shite fuel which is bad for your vehicles, we NEVER use these cheap suppliers as it fcuks up your vehicle.
We always use Shell stations even tho they are always a few pence more expensive but the quality of fuel is very good and it gives on average 50 miles per tank more.

So this option of using small cheap suppliers is not viable as you are deffo going to have problems with your vehicle in the long run.

The fuel the supermarkets sell is just standard petrol with no additives, at the refinery if they are supplying their own brands ie BP they add the additives like ethanol etc, if it is going to anyone else there are no additives.
Its the additives that help performance cars run better and cleaner.
But as I said above it all comes from the same refinerys.

[smirnoff_rules]

Asda supermarkets were founded by a group of Yorkshire farmers in 1965, the brand name a shortened version of Associated Dairies. The supermarket chain developed steadily until the 1990s when it hit trouble, but a change of leadership and then being taken over by Wal Mart (the largest retailer in the world) in 1999 helped them get back on track.

After Wal Mart took over, huge Supercentres were introduced in the UK. ASDA 'living' stores have also started to emerge, a long way ahead of the original grocery stores, selling a complete range of non food products. Asda are currently the second largest chain in the UK after Tesco, having overtaken Sainsbury's in 2003.

Many of these large stores have fuel stations attached, over 160 across the UK. Asda once sold Texaco or Esso fuel but now provide own brand fuel. The Asda brand is popular for being one of the cheapest for fuel and is often in the news for starting the price war between supermarket fuel providers - by being the first to cut their prices.

[DJSimo]

Asda supermarkets were founded by a group of Yorkshire farmers in 1965, the brand name a shortened version of Associated Dairies. The supermarket chain developed steadily until the 1990s when it hit trouble, but a change of leadership and then being taken over by Wal Mart (the largest retailer in the world) in 1999 helped them get back on track.

After Wal Mart took over, huge Supercentres were introduced in the UK. ASDA 'living' stores have also started to emerge, a long way ahead of the original grocery stores, selling a complete range of non food products. Asda are currently the second largest chain in the UK after Tesco, having overtaken Sainsbury's in 2003.

Many of these large stores have fuel stations attached, over 160 across the UK. Asda once sold Texaco or Esso fuel but now provide own brand fuel. The Asda brand is popular for being one of the cheapest for fuel and is often in the news for starting the price war between supermarket fuel providers - by being the first to cut their prices.

Yes its their own brand but it is still supplied by the refinerys, who are owned by the major oil companys BP,Shell etc as the supermarkets do not have their own refinerys.

[gmb45]

what peeps seem to forget is 70 odd % is tax this is what really needs sorting out

[smirnoff_rules]

what peeps seem to forget is 70 odd % is tax this is what really needs sorting out

there not going to change that in a recession . but the main petrol companies have to be making more because the price has increased and the vat hasnt plus the oil price is dropping ,, someone's making the extra money



Production up

Though profits were down, the company told us that its oil and gas production increased by more than 4% during the year, and BP had "continued its industry-leading 17-year run of increasing reserves." That growth in production was ahead of the company's expected long-term rate of 1-2%, being boosted partly by new projects.

While profits may be down this year on the back of falling oil prices, the company's production ostensibly looks to be in good shape for any rising future demand, even if production in 2010 is expected to be a little below last year's due to the boost given by the absence of a significant 2009 hurricane season.

However, is that rising future demand really going to materialise, and what will its potential profit margins look like? Crucially, as well as absolute oil prices being lower, refining margins have been falling too.

[daithi]

doing serious mileage every week and buy my diesel in the cheapest place also used to do the same with my petrol car and no mateer where i got the fuel i always got the same milage from a tank to the button almost
no such thing as a difference in mileage from different stations maybe been caught in traffic might interfear

[Lainie]

petrol is 116.9 in the garage down the road from me which is a shell garage. i usually go to morrisons as its across the road from my work. gmb thanks for the email. will forward to myself at work and email the entire dwp

[smirnoff_rules]

its hard to believe we sold bp in the first place .. wot a cock up .. bet the government wish we hadn't .. wot was thatcher thinkin .not as bad as brown selling all our gold tho

[hoggy952]

petrol is going up another 3p in fuel tax on 1st of april,
unless the government reconsiders which I doubt.

[hoggy952]

smirnoff Either you or the chap in the message don't understand how the oil companies work.
The three big refiners, Shell, BP and Esso refine for all the supermarkets as well as for each other, and also the independants too.
Stop buying at a BP garage and you have to buy somewhere else, which will have been supplied by one of the big three.
All that could happen would be that they will close some of their garages for good, so when the protest ends, you may very well find yourself having to drive a lot further EVERY time you want fuel, as the nearest garage may not only be further away but also in the wrong direction.