Fuel price campaign sent to me. (1 Viewer)

[Flying Fokker]

We are hitting £1.42 a litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 per litre. So here’s the 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 ten people. The person who sent it to me also sent it to 29 other people. If all of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 100) it will have reached 300...and if 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.

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

The problem is that the petrochemical industry does a lot more than obtain petrol from oil to sell off. All the other things they take from crude oil go towards making everyday things which you take for granted (plastics, rubbers, acrylics and so on). Think a little bit before smiting these people as evil money chasers.

 

[Houchens Head]

Only £1.42 a litre? I DREAM of paying only £1.42 a litre! I pay around £1.47 a litre for diesel and have done so for ages. Fuel is really expensive the further south you go, and here on the island, they have a monopoly on prices. With just three main supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons) selling at supermarket prices (of £1.47) the smaller garages sell for an average of £1.51. Bloody rip-off!

 

[Houchens Head]

The mathematical flaw in the original post is that, at least 75% of that "three hundred million people", will have already received the message from another contact along the line, so therefore the message is just being recycled. You also have to take into account that when you send things like this to say, ten people, how many of those ten will forward the message?
Nice idea but flawed to buggery.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

The mathematical flaw in the original post is that, at least 75% of that "three hundred million people", will have already received the message from another contact along the line, so therefore the message is just being recycled. You also have to take into account that when you send things like this to say, ten people, how many of those ten will forward the message?
Nice idea but flawed to buggery.

Cynic!!!!!!!! Lol

 

[wingy]

The problem is that the petrochemical industry does a lot more than obtain petrol from oil to sell off. All the other things they take from crude oil go towards making everyday things which you take for granted (plastics, rubbers, acrylics and so on). Think a little bit before smiting these people as evil money chasers.

If that is the case then they surely are receiving adequate remuneration.
Therefore why should Petrol Prices be as manipulated as they are ,Grabbing government loadings aside of course.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

If that is the case then they surely are receiving adequate remuneration.
Therefore why should Petrol Prices be as manipulated as they are ,Grabbing government loadings aside of course.

Oil companies can't dictate the tax which the government puts on it. As well as that since oil is a dwindling finite resource it is only to be expected that its cost will only get higher.

 

[ccfcway]

why dont they just crack on with electric cars which work

cant be long, surely ?


to me, this is like the whole "kodak" - "digital age wont take off, lets keep selling films"

surely we will all be on electric in years to come and petrol will drop in price ?

 

[wingy]

why dont they just crack on with electric cars which work

cant be long, surely ?


to me, this is like the whole "kodak" - "digital age wont take off, lets keep selling films"

surely we will all be on electric in years to come and petrol will drop in price ?

Has to be hydrogen Cell ultimately ,zero emissions ,Waste product =Fuel. Alternatively buy shares in Bolivian Lithium after watching Rise Of The Continents last night.

 

[dutchman]

I'm amazed at how many people fill up at the local BP station when Morrisons is only a short distance away and consistently cheaper.

 

[lordsummerisle]

These emails were out when it hit a pound a litre.

Filling up at Tescos', Asda or Morrisons won't make any difference anyway, where do you think they get their fuel from?

The next time I see an Asda fuel refinery will be the first.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Has to be hydrogen Cell ultimately ,zero emissions ,Waste product =Fuel. Alternatively buy shares in Bolivian Lithium after watching Rise Of The Continents last night.

Suspect that is likely the way we are headed Wingy however nothing has been made yet which would come close to powering a car. We have around 25 years left of oil at current rates of consumption so something needs to be found soonish.

 

[lordsummerisle]

why dont they just crack on with electric cars which work

cant be long, surely ?


to me, this is like the whole "kodak" - "digital age wont take off, lets keep selling films"

surely we will all be on electric in years to come and petrol will drop in price ?

The biggest problem with electric cars always seems to be the battery, range around a 100 miles, and tends to need to charge up again overnight.

Always wondered if it's feasible(not being an engineer myself, so don't really know) to have some sort of dynamo system to keep the battery charged using the kinetic energy produced when the vehicle is moving, incorporating the axles or something?

Seems too obvious not to have been looked at and discarded as unworkable, but you never know, may have solved the World's energy problems at a stroke on a Coventry City Messageboard!

 

[SkyBlueHomer]

I suspect they already have an alternative fuel but its being kept under wraps. Think about all those that would loose out if a sustainable alternative appeared on the market, petrol companies & governments.

petrolprices.com is worth looking at/signing up for. Once registered you get emails from them showing the prices in your local area

 

[Grappa]

The biggest problem with electric cars always seems to be the battery, range around a 100 miles, and tends to need to charge up again overnight.

Always wondered if it's feasible(not being an engineer myself, so don't really know) to have some sort of dynamo system to keep the battery charged using the kinetic energy produced when the vehicle is moving, incorporating the axles or something?

Seems too obvious not to have been looked at and discarded as unworkable, but you never know, may have solved the World's energy problems at a stroke on a Coventry City Messageboard!

I think it's the first law of thermodynamics that basically states you can't get more energy out of a system than you put in. Sadly.

 

[Grappa]

And the problem with electric cars is that you've got to produce the electricity to power them which is generally done using fossil fuels. Nuclear isn't that attractive these days and unless you're Norway hydroelectric isn't really cost effective.

 

[lordsummerisle]

I think it's the first law of thermodynamics that basically states you can't get more energy out of a system than you put in. Sadly.

Works on my bike lights!

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I suspect they already have an alternative fuel but its being kept under wraps. Think about all those that would loose out if a sustainable alternative appeared on the market, petrol companies & governments.

petrolprices.com is worth looking at/signing up for. Once registered you get emails from them showing the prices in your local area

Highly unlikely given that oil companies are the ones leading the way on such research alongside universities.

 

[lordsummerisle]

Highly unlikely given that oil companies are the ones leading the way on such research alongside universities.

Sure that governments would be using it if had something else, would fuck the Middle East up staright away.

 

[100 miles from Cov.]

Only £1.42 a litre? I DREAM of paying only £1.42 a litre! I pay around £1.47 a litre for diesel and have done so for ages. Fuel is really expensive the further south you go, and here on the island, they have a monopoly on prices. With just three main supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons) selling at supermarket prices (of £1.47) the smaller garages sell for an average of £1.51. Bloody rip-off!

I'm on the island this week and it is £1.37.9 for diesel at Morrisons in Sandown.

 

[wingy]

I suspect they already have an alternative fuel but its being kept under wraps. Think about all those that would loose out if a sustainable alternative appeared on the market, petrol companies & governments.

petrolprices.com is worth looking at/signing up for. Once registered you get emails from them showing the prices in your local area

Petrol companies /Governments and indeed rival forms of transport . Like one of the Rail operators or NR chief execs standing there telling us what a good deal they were doing for us
by setting their pricing policy @ a couple of decimal points below what we as individuals could achieve per mile with a car ,absolutely appalling no sense of competition whatsoever just milk it for what they'll let us take.

 

[SkyBlueHomer]

Yes it sounds a bit nuts people but if a greener/more sustainable source appeared, think for a minute how much money would these people loose including governments across the world in tax.
As BSB said earlier in the thread there is only a certain amount of this stuff available & the less it gets the higher it will cost therefore a win/win situation for oil companies & governments.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Yes it sounds a bit nuts people but if a greener/more sustainable source appeared, think for a minute how much money would these people loose including governments across the world in tax.
As BSB said earlier in the thread there is only a certain amount of this stuff available & the less it gets the higher it will cost therefore a win/win situation for oil companies & governments.

As I said though it is primarily universities and petrochemical companies leading such research. Speaking as a scientist I reckon we will be seeing fuel cells as the ultimate replacement for petrol, with solar predominating in Africa, the Middle East and a fair chunk of the US.