I was e-mailed this by a colleague at work, its been tried before but it can only work if everyone sticks to it. Its not difficult, i've been doing it for ages anyway! Rather than e-mail it to 10 people i thought i would broadcast it to thousands.

>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. 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 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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!!

>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

Sounds good in principle but how many supermarkets etc source their petrol from Esso/BP? How much of the stuff that is sold under another brand name JET etc actually comes from a BP/Esso refinary? So long as they are moving the stuff out of the refineries they won't give a rats and it will just be the franchisee who runs the pumps that will feel the hardship. Not sure if that is the case, stand to be corrected and join in if not

Sorry, but this is simply SPAM.

Sorry, but this is simply SPAM.

yup, what he says.

You've been taken for a ride mate:

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Snip:"Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea"snip

Dave.

So have they really got us by the balls? Is there nothing we can do? I was all geared up to stick it to em too! :confused:

What a load of crap that email is.

I tend to think that people who have to post in comedy fonts at ridiculous sizes have little of merit to say.

I tend to think that people who have to post in comedy fonts at ridiculous sizes have little of merit to say.

easy... no need for that... I've met Mac, and he's a nice fella........ with lots of things of merit to say, regardless of whether the e-mail is pointless or not.

I tend to think that people who have to post in comedy fonts at ridiculous sizes have little of merit to say.

Thats a touch harsh! Was probably cut and pasted from an email.

I tend to think that people who have to post in comedy fonts at ridiculous sizes have little of merit to say.

The font type and size are the way it was e-mailed to me, awful i know but i just copied and pasted it. when i pasted it and added my bit at the start it was normal size and font so i posted it. When i saw it had came out massive i clicked on the edit button and it was all small again so i gave up and hoped people wouldn't mind and assumed those older members who prefer large print would be grateful. That said, big or small, it still provoked discussion which is what a forum is all about isn't it or am i missing the point?

Cheers Sharky, you're alright too!

I tend to think that people who have to post in comedy fonts at ridiculous sizes have little of merit to say.

Thats outrageous!! kebab moped triangulation

:P

Out of interest does anyone know roughly what the breakdown of the price of a litre of fuel is, in terms of actual fuel cost, tax etc.?

Out of interest does anyone know roughly what the breakdown of the price of a litre of fuel is, in terms of actual fuel cost, tax etc.?

well I believe its 80% (could be 75%) tax from our goverment (the highest in Europe) so if a litre is £1 and 80p is tax, I can't see the oil companies or the forecourts being able to knock much off, has to come down to how much it is taxed...... they keep going on about road pricing, but they all ready have it in place perfectly... its called fuel duty.... the more you drive, the more you pay in tax

my tax on fuel alone per week is about £80.......

Thats outrageous!! kebab moped triangulation

:P

Seconded!

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Thats outrageous!! kebab moped triangulation

:P

Isn't that the lyrics from McFly's song on the Top Gear Top of the Pops special

been doing my bit for ages, didnt think esso and bp sold vpower

Out of interest does anyone know roughly what the breakdown of the price of a litre of fuel is, in terms of actual fuel cost, tax etc.?

According to BBC (from the AA):

Chris

The breakdown is quite good Chris but remember ther is Petroleum tax in the oil company bit, VAT and other dutys in the others, with the latest hike by UKCE it is now just over 81% total revenue to the Goverment.

Thanks for Dave and Chris with their price breakdowns. The reason for my asking is that, as I suspected, such drops simply would not happen.

I think we need to just bite the bullet and accept the fuel is going to get more expensive. It's a limited commodity that's getting harder to source and is in great demand . . . ergo it's expensive! Tax does make a large proportion of the cost, but that's the government that controls that not the oil companies. Furthermore, and putting my green hat on, if it was substantially reduced in costs it would encourage the use of less economical vehicles and that isn't going to help the very real environment problem we have either.

Just my thoughts . . . .

How do you expect me to take anything written in Comic Sans seriously?

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

The breakdown is quite good Chris but remember ther is Petroleum tax in the oil company bit, VAT and other dutys in the others, with the latest hike by UKCE it is now just over 81% total revenue to the Goverment.

....is the wrong answer.

Furthermore, and putting my green hat on, if it was substantially reduced in costs it would encourage the use of less economical vehicles and that isn't going to help the very real environment problem we have either.

I don't think the environmental problem is really "very real" - I'm more concerned by the social implications of having more and more congestion without any infrastructure for alternatives.

Chris

With the government taxing us that much they could improve our roads!! And whilst everyone is thinking green, a lot of other countries aren't and have their fuel much cheaper! Why should we get stung and other countries not??