Got this as an email....makes sense actually, interesting.....time to switch to tesco99/momentum perhaps?



PETROL WAR STARTS MAY 1st 2012


THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' PETROL FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE
CAN GET PETROL BACK DOWN TO £1.00 PER LITRE.

This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of
his engineer buddies who retired from Haliburton. If you are tired of the
petrol prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time
to read this please.

Phillip 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! It's worth your consideration. Join the
resistance.

We are probably going to hit close to £1.50 a litre by this summer and
it might go higher! Want petrol prices to come down?

We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just
laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt"
ourselves by refusing to buy petrol ...

By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about £0.99 per litre
is cheap. Me too! It is currently £1.38 at SHELL and ESSO for
regular unleaded, climbing every week.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think
that the cost of a gallon of PETROL is TOO CHEAP at £0.87 to £0.99, we need
to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the
marketplace..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! We can
do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying petrol.

But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act together to force a
price war.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from
the two biggest companies, ESSO & SHELL

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 SHELL
and ESSO 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 15 people. If each of us send it to at least ten
more (15 x 10 = 150) ... and those 150 send it to at least ten more (150 x
10 = 1,500)... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of
people, we will have reached over 1.5 MILLION consumers .
If those 1.5 million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then
15 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... 150 MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten
more people within one day of receipt, all 150 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. Don't buy
from ESSO or SHELL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE £0.99 RANGE AND KEEP
THEM DOWN.


THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


REMEMBER - STARTING MAY 1st NO PETROL FROM ESSO or SHELL!


(why wait till then, get into the habit by starting now)

 

Yawn.

 

Whilst I wouldn't go quite as far as the above post lol - your email blurb forgets a KEY FACT...... how much of your per litre cost is down to the Governments TAX.

 

Indeed, without the tax, our fuel would cost the same as in the US.... remind me, did the extra 2p/litre added when VAT was dropped from 17% to 15% ever get removed?

 

**** me i nearly fell asleep reading all that

 

So your telling Subaru owners not to buy shell fuel, the ONLY company that sells v power, the fuel that most of our cars are mapped to use!

Good luck with that one...

 

This is an old idea that will never work. Not enough people will stop using the biggest suppliers.
If EVERYBODY in the entire country didn't use shell then yes, they would have to lower their prices but that's never going to happen

The biggest issue is the tax, that and only that is what needs reducing. It's our government which is taking the pi$$ out of us not the filling stations.

 

Can we get something straight. The oil companies only make billions because they invest billions. I am pretty sure that if anyone invested billions they would want to see billions in return.
Oil is a finite reserve, and as the oil companies spend much more to get at the difficult to reach stuff it is going to cost more.
Hence get used to it petrol will continue to rise and rise.

 

Fair enough.....all the comments make sense....

 

I got excited when I read the title, thinking perhaps a sensible idea was about to be sprung upon, or better still a petrol war had already started! Instead I'm faced with an "older than the internet itself" idea that, as stated above, will never work because it's our government who are really screwing us over NOT the oil companies!

 

There is other super unleaded out there you know....
Just stick some octane boost in to be on the safe side ......

 

No thanks rather pay the tax than buy a new engine

 

 

Tesco momentum FTW

 

Agree there is many other brands of super out there.
Would I use them in my pride and joy ? Would I hell !

Octane booster, your defeating the whole point I buying cheaper fuel then. What's a tin of booster cost these days, gotta be a fiver at least for some decent stuff.

 

I have seen this so many times , such an old and boring subject , never guna happen

 

Lol it would work if everyone stopped buying it as the email suggests! As you say though not likeley to happen which is a shame ... we could do our part though by switching to T99?

Let's face it though the price is only going one way, if you don't like it buy a Prius

TX.

 

No.

 

Nothing new, this idea has been banded about for years and it will never work. I will not work because peeps will shop about to save 1p per litre so they will not continue to boycott long before prices drop to 99p per litre.

The high prices are due to tax not oil prices or oil company profits. I have another idea. it's election time soon and the one thing that can de-stabilize the system that continues to rob up (regardless of party) is a mass wasted vote. Don't "no" vote, go to the polling station but rather than put an X next to one of the (systems) party's write NO VOTE UNTIL FAIR FUEL PRICES on the slip.
This wasted vote scares the government so much they have talked about making it a criminal offence. This is because it threatens to de-stabilise the whole system that rules us.

 

Unlike the OP .