How To Reduce Petrol Costs

Sorry if its been posted before - Someone has just sent this to me, thought it might be of interest to some of you! (The cynic in me thinks it was invented by someone from Shell or one of the other large oil companies )


How to reduce petrol costs


We are hitting £1.10 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 a ltr.



Philip XXXXXXXX offered this good idea:



This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certainday 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 usto 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.

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





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

Dont think it would change anything to be honest. We would just be lining the pockets of other suppliers. I am boycotting BP but only because the local Morrisons is closer for me and 3p a litre cheaper at the moment, but when they catch up i will be back at BP.

Resistance, as they say, is futile.

It's a manual SPAM.

A human forwarded virus.

They even include the maths
on how much SPAM mail could
be generated.

Originally Posted by Nev

It's a manual SPAM.

A human forwarded virus.

They even include the maths
on how much SPAM mail could
be generated.

"A human forwarded virus" - where is the virus Nev it was a text email. I know what you are saying about the SPAM and thats why I didn't forward it to anyone.

But its the concept of whats being said that we are discussing here!

It's a rubbish spam that one of my "Friends" forwarded to all her mates - one of whom had the e-mail address @uk.bp.com, here is his response

There are many, many levels where this is complete tripe let me start:

1, ESSO and BP are definitely NOT the same company, who ever wrote this needs some serious education in the oil industry, they are direct competitors.

2, At least 70 pence per litre is tax, how on earth are we then going to get the cost down to the 69 pence a litre range, I can really see BP and ESSO selling at a loss !!

3, Who do you suppose supplies the Tescos etc. with the oil for the petrol, they are supermarkets and not oil companies so how do they get it out of the ground, think about it !!

4, Big companies make far more money out of getting the oil out the ground and refining than they do on the forecourt, if we're still using the oil they'll still make money.

5, Nobody has conditioned us to think that over £1 a litre is cheap, it's the government and their spin that lets you all think its the companies making the money, just find out how the tax is used !!

6, Do you really thing the big companies haven't got any money reserves to cope with demand fluctuations in their petrol station market ??

Please check your facts before sending out tabloid driven rubbish that actually makes people believe then can effect the forecourt price, the only way is to vote for a party who will reduce tax, and which party is going to do that ??

True but I think the recent petrol rises are due to the price of oil not tax increases?

Ride a push bike...............

Interesting post on another site about this:

Any way If people boycotted the major Petrol firms the Oil companies would just put up the price that they charge to the smaller companies, Forcing their prices up more. that way the public would not go to the smaller companies, and start using the Major ones again.

Bp and the likes would not be too woried about it. I know how they work. But it is the Garages and their employees who would suffer.

Originally Posted by GranTurismo

Ride a push bike...............

No thanks!

To be honest I really don't care that much about it. I am a firm believer that it is always going to get more and more expensive to drive - but I like diving so thats that. Nothing is going to stop me from getting in my Alfa even if it's £10 per ltr

I haven't paid any attention to the latest petrol prices - when my car bleeps I put some in thats that really, it was only on another thread here today that I saw how much it is per ltr, I was quite surprised. I have known its been around the £1 mark for ages - can't avoid it when its on the news all the time! But I have no idea how much it actually is at my local BP.

I think we all just need to get used to the fact that petrol, tax running costs etc are going to soar over the next few years. But until I can no longer afford to eat I will still be out there using the fuel like crazy

Originally Posted by Alfa Vincent

"A human forwarded virus" - where is the virus Nev it was a text email. I know what you are saying about the SPAM and thats why I didn't forward it to anyone.

Not you dude, but the effect is the same
as those old viruses: Look at the user's
address book and mail itself to everyone.

Except in this case you get the user to
perform the forwarding and the payload
is a harmless non-idea meme.


@Keithy I see you have the anti virus.

Originally Posted by Nev

Not you dude, but the effect is the same
as those old viruses: Look at the user's
address book and mail itself to everyone.

Except in this case you get the user to
perform the forwarding and the payload
is a harmless non-idea meme.


@Keithy I see you have the anti virus.

Fair enough matey

Originally Posted by Alfa Vincent

True but I think the recent petrol rises are due to the price of oil not tax increases?

Duty is fixed (2p added every now and then), but the cost of oil rises and falls.

The price you pay is

(Cost per litre + Duty) x 1.175 (VAT)

So if the cost per litre (that the fuel companies charge) goes up, then the government also gets another 17.5% of that as extra VAT! And when the government sticks another 2p on duty, that also accrues another 17.5% VAT charge.. So while the oil companies might be shafting us, the government is shafting is two-fold!

only way petrol will go down is if the government put their tax down and that aint gonna happen. put simply there is **** all we can do. great aint it, democracy.

got to love the government we are not the only ones though, loads of countries that used to be cheap for fuel seem to be jumping on the super duty route!

sickens me to the bone, makes me want to sell up and become a "new age traveller" every which way you turn you get taxed...
Last weeks wages took a hit of £130 income tax (no i aint high paid, just scrab over time)
Thats right 130 just for one weeks wages....

By the time my 75 is finished, either petrol will have dried up or it'll cost so much i may aswell use the car as a museum peice!!!

reduce their prices to around 69p a litre? yeah right, they might have a job doing that when you consider approx 80p of the cost of a litre is fuel duty tax. the only way to reduce prices is to have a massive campaign of civil disobedience followed by the public execution of gordon 'sticky fingers' brown.

now that's a GREAT idea! I am well up for that

I always thought the French had a good way of demonstrating, they just set everything on fire!

Matches anyone!?

Originally Posted by alfaspence

sickens me to the bone, makes me want to sell up and become a "new age traveller" every which way you turn you get taxed...

Trouble is you won't be able to afford to "travel" ... how about a "new age squatter" ???

Originally Posted by alimac1973

I always thought the French had a good way of demonstrating, they just set everything on fire!

Matches anyone!?

Don't you need petrol for that?