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Topic : Petrol Boycott |
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| alan |
As I was standing in Silsden Service Station paying 124.9p per litre of diesel this morning I pondered an e-mail I got from the brother-in-law yesterday. It was a chain e-mail, which I would not normally take much notice of, but this one actually made sense. It suggested that the attempted boycott of motorists not buying fuel for a day last year was a complete failure. This time it had the idea that we should boycott the two biggest suppliers COMPLETELY till they ALL got the message, i.e. BP and ESSO. So, I did my bit this morning and bought from Shell, even if I did have to use Silsden  If anyone is really interested I'll copy the e-mail on to here. |
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| Fred |
Wishful thinking if you think it will do any good. It's the government making all the money not the petrol companies. The petrol companies do make lots of money but they are just keeping their profit margin The problem is everytime the petrol company puts the price up to cover their operating cost a few more pence is added to the government coffers via the VAT element of the sale.  The motorist is an easy target. |
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| alan |
Wishful thinking 'Fred'? Just remember what happened to Thatcher with the Poll Tax when people got together! Do we just sit back on our bums and moan? |
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| Fred |
Regardless of the company you buy fuel from the government will still get get their cut - the government should take less in the standing tax duty. The VAT receipts increase automatically with price increases so the government just sits back and takes the money. I can't see how boycotting a petrol company will help bring prices down. The only thing it's likely to do is put another independent petrol station out of business. |
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| alan |
Ok 'Fred' you have your opinion, we'll just sit on here and moan about how much tax we pay............ |
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| Fred |
Alan, perhaps you should just post the email. |
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| alan |
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it We are hitting £1.20 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.30 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 79p 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 |
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| pgp001 |
You might be interested to see these website links, they show you exactly who is getting your money when you buy fuel. www.petrolprices.com/price-of-petrol.html www.petrolprices.com/fuel-tax.html Phil |
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| alan |
this post has been edited 1 time(s) The tax increase in 2007 doesn't show how the fuel price has escalated by 10 to 20p per litre in recent weeks though! It's always an easy point scoring excercise to blame the government (who no doubt should take some blame) and ignore the rich multi-national oil companies who are profiteering out of all this! |
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| Fred |
It won't do any good but sign here petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?cat=521 If they can ignore a promise for a referendum why should they even bother to look at a request to lower fuel prices. |
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| alan |
Oh 'Fred' you are old cynic.......where's that Yorkshire grit? Might not do any good, but won't cost you owt to try - either inconvenience or money! |
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| MATTSKI |
It always amuzes me at the great government paradox, they are struggling to contain inflation when it's due in a large part to the escalating cost of fuel, which they (the gov't) can easily alter. |
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| alan |
The trouble is that for every few pence the oil companies put on a litre this is escalated by the tax, which is exactly what is happening now! |
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| Fred |
Fuel tax provides £505m extra revenue www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/fair_deal_for_drivers/1960988/Fuel-tax-provides-andpound505m-extra-revenue.html |
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| alan |
Chickenfeed BP can beat that............ news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1314348,00.html At least our taxes come back to us (more or less) rather than make shareholders even richer! |
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| Fred |
quoteonly when they want to buy a bi-election. |
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| wahiba |
I will repeat. Just over 40 years ago petrol was 25p a gallon or roughly 6p a litre. With inflation it would be 90p a litre. 40 years ago cars averaged 30/35 mpg, today they average 40/50 mpg. The real cost for fuel to the user has hardly changed. Considering it is a finite resource it is quite amazing. It will go up a lot more when it starts running out. Be worried. |
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| carliol |
it's not that simple to blame the oil companies. oil traders, weak dollar, China needing more oil, OPEC holding back extra production, political unrest in some countries, the list goes on...... the fact is that that our government could help by reducing the fuel duty until these other factors settle down and the speculating traders move on to something else. but they are now heading into financial trouble with their tax policies, and can't afford to help out when we need it, there's nothing in the kitty. we need some fresh ideas and a new prime minister, soon! |
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| alan |
Meaning a fresh Tory prime minister 'carliol'? They were the party who started increasing the duty! The obvious way to solve it is therefore type on here and moan, then all will be magically well again! |
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| carliol |
Actually "Alan", I'm sick of all of the politicians, and I've never voted Tory in all 40 years I've voted. But I do think we need some sort of fresh approach, and stop ripping the people off all the time. Things are beginning to hurt everyone , and greed seems to be at the root of it all. Maybe I'm just getting old, and can remember when things were a lot better, and people were different....where's my pipe and slippers? ( and maybe a good malt whisky as well!) |
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| wahiba |
The roads are over crowded with cars. It makes sense, for any political party, to help control this through taxation. The tories might give a load of pro car guff but the truth is there are too many for our roads. The politicos need to get their act together because if they are not ready well fuel has to be rationed then the party in power can whistle for its vote. The price of fuel needs to be ratcheted up and the money spent on more public transport. As far as fuel prices are at the moment we are living in a fools paradise. Just look at how food is going up in price due to international circumstances, i.e. the billions of Chinese and Indians are heading towards being as rich as us. Fuel will be next. Electric power, trains trams and trolley buses are the answer, and the family car for occasional leisure use, if at all. Electric personal vehicles such as bikes and small car will also play no small part. Petrol heads, your days are numbered. The car as we know it is doomed. The money men in London know it, why do you think all those companies were sold to daft foreigners. |
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