petrol price war

[impact5]

We are hitting 129.9p per litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying 150p 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... do it

[wilkesneil]

thats a good idea but where the other companies get there petrol/diesel from originally as if its through bp or esso then its pointless...

[Milvus]

The problem is that the majority of the price of fuel is tax. 49p of a litre of unleaded goes to the petrol station, distributor, refiner etc the other 80p or so goes to the government.

[ABerrant]

Esso and BP are not one - Esso is part of ExxonMobil, which is the original subject of this 10 year old spam.

http://www.snopes.com...s/gasoline/gasout.asp

[jno]

just sign up to petrolprices.com and find the cheapest petrol on any given day in your area.

Or, of course, stop driving.

[imhotep]

Hmm,I don't know where to go from here.....I usually get my fuel from supermarkets like Tesco and Morrisons!!! Is it okay to go to these places for fuel?

[boxtops]

Depends where they wholesale their fuel from, very likely to be from one of the big boys, IMO.

[razza]

Its been said before

[TTG]

Agree with the original poster. Their fuel is always a few pence more expensive than my local supermarkets.

[vinrex7]

As milvus says, the government are the bad guys here. There was a report yesterday that said they made 30 billion from motorists and and 17 billion of that was spent on god knows what. And if you look around most of the roads have pot holes, I'm sure 17 bn would go a long way to repair at least some of the roads.
And jno, your answer of " stop driving" is just silly you obviously don't live in the real world where most people need to drive in order to work

[R1Geezer]

The trouble is that won't work either. Pretty much every garage get's it's fuel from the local refinery, in my case it's Fawley, an Esso refinery but they serve alll the garages even the non BP, Esso ones so you can't tell who's petrol you are buying. The oil companies just adjust their account with each other.

[jno]

vinrex, the real world is the one where petrol is running out and the law of supply and demand operates. You just have to deal with it.