The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, But the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 114.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 a litre. 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 90p 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.
BOYCOTT ESSO and BP
If offended please feel free to report me to your nearest MOD
Try what one of the lads did where i work, filled his car up courtesy of the company fuel card which is issued to his van
great idea until he filled his car up in the morning,then a few hours later the works van runs out of diesel, xpln that one
He no longer works with us.
(only my opinion,in no way am i insulting you....statement copyright of plugtwot)
what gets me going is i drive in my job between 500 and 1000 miles a month ,some months its been over 2000.. anyway i get 52 p a mile but i got that when it was 20p a litre cheaper..!!
and i get i taxed on it which im sure i shouldnt..so i use my taxed money to buy the petrol,pay tax again on the pump then pay more tax when i get it back as my expenses..
As soon as it hit the magicc £1 barrier it has shot up and within the next 18 months I predict it will hit £1.50 and withing perhaps another 18 months will hit £2 because now the magic barrier has been broken it si open season.
Imagine back in the day when it was done in gallons, not litres, if it had gone up £0.50 a gallon so quick there would have been uproar which is about 15p a litre.
feel free to feel offended, cyber-bullied, put out, outside of the clique, side-lined, marginalised or just generally have the piss taken out of. However it's a JOKE!-Nick's Mirth World!
I think theres about 85% tax on fuel.
Lovely !!
Plus, isnt it budget day today ?? That'll give the government more opportunity to hike the price of fuel up a notch. Not to mention beer, fags, fresh air, life and everything else they can possibly plonk a tax on.
