Petrol Prices Solution?

[GraRS07]

I know most dont buy Esso & BP but 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

[crispy]

E-mails such as this have been floating round for years.

Great marketing idea by Shell, Tesco etc....

[Ice_Coffee]

There are only 60~70 million people in the uk (not all of them drive).

The likes of BP are funding my pension so im not in a hurry to see them collapse.

Lastly we already get our fuel cheaper than almost anywhere else in europe, the inflated price we pay at the pump is primarily down to government tax, if you have an axe to grind, go grind it on the face of the tories who introduced the fuel duty annual ladder in the first place.

TBH fair play to the oil companies for the hassle they go to creating a litre of fuel to then sell to us for 80p (pre tax price) when all Coca cola have to do is add sugar and flavour to council water and then charge £1 for 500ml from an unstaffed vending machine.

[Dom81]

TBH fair play to the oil companies for the hassle they go to creating a litre of fuel to then sell to us for 80p (pre tax price) when all Coca cola have to do is add sugar and flavour to council water and then charge £1 for 500ml from an unstaffed vending machine.

Well said!

[adsgreen]

If I was an oil company I'd change the receipts to give a nice breakdown of the price charged to the consumer.

[Pie]

What I’d be interested to hear is, (hypothetically) what fuel threshold price would you need to see before you’d sell the RS4 in favour of a more economical car?

I’m guessing that for the majority of this board, the recent hike in fuel price is nothing more than a nuisance but certainly not to the point where its bye bye RS, hello Yaris.
Unfortunately for your average Joe, £1.30 / litre could well be the turning point between private car and public transport.
Similarly, if it goes up to say £1.50 a litre, there could be another round of motorists turning to alternative means of transport.

Me, I’m fortunate in that I have no dependants so I have the disposable income to fritter away but if fuel were to increase to say £2.50 a litre, then for me its bye bye Audi - but only to replace with something more economical.
For the transition to public transport from an eco-car, it would probably have to rocket to well over £4.00 a litre.

A continued fuel price increase – it’d be fair to say - would most likely have a positive impact on congested roads (big smiles if you like a spirited blast on B Roads at weekends without having to deal with hazards like caravans and Sunday drivers) as motoring would then become a luxury and the preserve of those who can afford it.

Conversely, would these “better offâ€

[Ice_Coffee]

currently costs me £3 round trip to work everyday, and so is cheaper than public transport (not factoring running costs of course) it would probably have to triple before I would turn the RS4 into a weekend play thing and bought a blue motion golf or something

[Terry1948]

The Haulage business is the only one that may force the goverment into reducing the cost of fuel. If we stopped delivering. The country would cease to function no fuel, no food in a matter of days the only problem is that most business would go bust.

[P_G]

currently costs me £3 round trip to work everyday, and so is cheaper than public transport (not factoring running costs of course) it would probably have to triple before I would turn the RS4 into a weekend play thing and bought a blue motion golf or something

At present mine is £25 per day commute. That said if I used public transport it would be a 5-6 hour round commute as opposed to the 2 I have now so what price on time? If it doubled then I would have to consider alternate methods.

[ShaneyB]

Don't shoot the messenger but is LPG an option? Most of the cars on a Johnathan Palmer day last year were, including the M3's?

No offence intended.

[Ice_Coffee]

Don't shoot the messenger but is LPG an option? Most of the cars on a Johnathan Palmer day last year were, including the M3's?

No offence intended.

Can we use LPG on our cars ??

[ShaneyB]

Seen it slated on other forums but the M3, Porker's etc @ JP flew.

No idea of cost but I bet it won't be worth it. Wonder how that would effect resale values?

[DuncS3]

I am currently utilising a fuel card - without it I probably would have bought a smaller engined car (but still something decent)

[Steve_C]

I live in the sticks so public transport isn't an option for me.

If everyone went to LPG you can be sure the government would soon increase taxes on it too.

[HYFR]

I am currently utilising a fuel card - without it I probably would have bought a smaller engined car (but still something decent)

my S3 only got 26mpg