Petrol prices

[riffmasher]

Hi, got this in my email box yesterday and have now forwarded it to all my mates but though I will put it on here as well.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it, just copy and paste the bols text to an email and send it off.
Cheers
Riff

We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 2.00 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 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
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[neatbik]

In theory i guess it could work, but we as a nation dont tend to stick together.
How much is a litre of fuel BEFORE the scum government wollop their taxes on it?
Maybe it would be more beneficial to protest the government, maybe by firebombing 10 downing street whilst slackjaw is in residence

[Ant]

the main problem with that is company drivers, at my last job i had a fuel card that i could only use at total, plus the fact most company car drivers couldnt give a shit because there not paying for it!
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[Egret]

I can't find anything saying that Exon and BP are the same company. In fact I'm fairly sure that they are completely separate as they are, in my opinion, at the other ends of the ethical spectrum. If I remember correctly exon invest little to nothing in renewable energy, where as BP are one of the best when it comes to this.

Sounds like standard chain letter spam to me.

[Itchy]

Not this again.....

Price hikes are due to speculation, since the easy oil still hasn't run out.

Also the current problem of fiat currency, 2008 $100 isn't worth 2005 $100, due to constant running on the money printing presses.

Ontop of this on the other side OPEC who trades in USD see the billions of USD they are holding lose value from 04-05 effectively 1/5th of the value has gone, hence oil forgetting speculation costs EXACTLY the same, its just the fact that your money is less valuable.

If you don't believe me go as somebody over 50 , how much a crown would buy a crown is now worth 25p. In ten years time we'll be telling younger folks how much £10 could buy £10 is currently falling in value by 25-40% btw.
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[Stelmer]

I've always said that nothing would change as long as people still bought it en masse. Protest all we want. It won't really change anything.

What we do need is everyone who is able to not to use their cars/bikes for a week and just use public transport or walk.

This should cause a loss in fuel revenues and should expose the bad state of public transport.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

That things has been on the internet even when petrol was 70p a litre.

It doesn't work because no one does it.

Also BP and Exxon aren't the same company. I did a report on BP last year for uni.
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[igiyf]

last i heard it was about 80% tax on petrol..unsure if thats correct it would not surprise me though

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[Bofh5]

What really p1sses me off though is why the goverment doesn't reduce the tax during this period of being held to ransom by the opec tossers.

They preach on about helping people but when i asked during the local elections about reducing fuel duty all i got was the usual dribble.
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[Bofh5]

Also it comes down to the dollar because thats what its traded in and the lower the value of the dollar the higher they will sell it for to make the same amount (inflation).

Hopefully once the US election is out the way the dollar will improve and the price will start to fall.

If it doesn't the the Tin foil hat wearing brigade will have a field day.
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[Itchy]

In Parliment whenever somebody says reduce taxes , Blair always used to say so what services are you going to cut for it then?.

Curiously enough tax credits were overpaid to the tune of 10bn over two years, and yet there were no immediate cuts.

10bn is about 1/4 off fuel tax.

But it is impossible for the government to reduce taxes, there is a current saying

"even Stalin knew to may hay when the sun was shining" ,

Gordon Brown didn't he squanded it ALL when the going was good (it up to 2004) and to boot sold most of the gold at $200 an Oz.

Fast forward to 2008 ,

the Labour party are about to become bankrupt as the Co-op have decided to call in their loan for the 30th June.

The government is 3.26 trillion in debt

Add in PFI and public sector pensions the government is about 7.2 trillion in debt.

Just to give you a bit of a shock:

thats

£326,000,000,000,000

OR

£720,000,000,000,000

consider the magnitude vs the tax take

£500,000,000,000

Oh and to make things even worse we pay 7% interest on that.

Thus their only solution is hyper inflation.
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[Shay HTFC]

Not to mention the masses of cash that companies get away with tax theft.

Start chasing up and actually punishing big companies for tax avoidance and fuel duty could be cut quite easily I reckon. Has anyone (I'm looking at you Itchy ) got the figures for how much corporate tax fraud is?
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[Itchy]

What you mean a certain supermarket with which has the letters

E S C O T


in its name

Which moved several billion estimated to be 1-5bn a year through various caribean islands, this company is more powerful than the government though....

Also the problem of taxodus, increase taxes stop letting people get away with as much as before and companies think sack this and move away.

A large number of firms have moved domicile and residence already.
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[Shay HTFC]

Yes Itchy, but where do we draw the line?
Just give in to big powerful companies who demand lower taxes?

I guess this is the beauty of protest though. It allows a large number of the 'little ones' to have their own voice and over power the big 'baddies'
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Hi

First stage, reduce government waste so that taxes can be reduced.

So much is wasted through needlessly complex bureaucracy. DVLA with SORN, etc. Income tax with far too many complex clauses. Etc.

All the best

Keith
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[Bofh5]

No i'm not that young

I still remember petrol being 39.9p a litre when i was going to college back in 1989.

So in just under 20 years its gone up nearly a pound a litre !

In the US when they tried to hike prices they all got out their six shooters and went mental.

In the UK a bloke called Dave and his pet chicken Stuart blockaded a refinery somewhere no one had ever heard of.

People power can work its just getting the British people to realise it.
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