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2.4K views 21 replies 14 participants last post by  MarkoC  
#1 ·
This email is circulating, have a read;

We are hitting €135.09 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying €1.50 a litre. Have a look at 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 unavoidable and therefore OK, 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 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!

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Statoil, Elf etc. i.e. Boycott BP and Esso
 
#2 · (Edited by Moderator)
who ever wrote that must be on drugs, that will never be pulled off.
 
#6 · (Edited by Moderator)
most ppl just think that the seller makes a fortune of petrol, thats not true actually
1. did u ever thought about the war in iraq ?
2. do you know how much costs barrel of oil at the moment and 2 years ago ?
3. do you know how much of the petrol price is TAX ?
4. you really think u gonna make any progress with that ?

for example:

http://www.opec.org/home/PowerPoint/Taxation/taxation.htm
more reading
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/...ax-1393061.html
and more
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/.../breaking26.htm

and finally read THIS here
http://www.ipia.ie/Issues/upload/What_dete...pump-prices.pdf

so i personally cant see any point to "attack" the petrol sellers here ...

dam so many narrow minded ppl out there lol
 
#7 ·
If would never work because as a previous post said they supply other garages and the pertol will still sell - also said previously the reseller does not make a lot of money (hence all the city centre garages becoming appartment blocks in the last few yrs - the one on the Quays was selling juice for mad money and still has custom (the gaurds use it a lot).

The main problem driving up the price of juice is

Speculation on the stock market
The likes of OPEC holding back supply
The weakness of the dollar
And then government duty

The best thing to do (IMO) is shop around - look for the best value and buy were is best for you (within reason - don't want use 2 galons to save 1euro) - there are cheaper prices out there and if we all went to the cheaper garages the dear garages would have to follow suit??
 
#8 · (Edited by Moderator)
The thing about it is that you save feck all money by shopping around in the overall scheme of things anyway.

Say the difference is 5 cent a litre between the local Esso and Tesco in your area. If you buy 60 litres (an average tankful) you save €3. But you'll probably have to queue up for way longer at the Tesco station because that's where everybody goes.

The way I think of it is this; if someone said to you "I'll give you €3 if you take my car up to Tesco and queue up for 15 minutes to fill it with petrol" you'd tell them to feck off but people don't mind doing it for themselves. Doesn't make sense to me anyway.

The way I choose my petrol stations these days is how good their coffee is
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#9 ·
'''The way I choose my petrol stations these days is how good their coffee is
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^likewise, and how good looking the staff are
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#12 ·
QUOTE (Geo @ Jun 3 2008, 04:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The thing about it is that you save feck all money by shopping around in the overall scheme of things anyway.

Say the difference is 5 cent a litre between the local Esso and Tesco in your area. If you buy 60 litres (an average tankful) you save €3. But you'll probably have to queue up for way longer at the Tesco station because that's where everybody goes.

The way I think of it is this; if someone said to you "I'll give you €3 if you take my car up to Tesco and queue up for 15 minutes to fill it with petrol" you'd tell them to feck off but people don't mind doing it for themselves. Doesn't make sense to me anyway.

The way I choose my petrol stations these days is how good their coffee is
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True, but I meant more about making a point to the dearer garages than saving money - like if we all shoped in the cheaper ones - would that not help drive down prices in the dearer ones ?? would that not be proving a point? - I wouldn't que for pertol either and not all garages have que's like tesco and its not too hard to pay attention to the prices (Maybe we should have a sticky on the best and worst garages??)

As for the coffee - you could run tractors on most the stuff sold as coffee in town
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#15 ·
i presume your family own all these........Shell, Asda, Tesco, Statoil, Elf and your trying to boycott us?
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#20 ·
I was in Egypt last year and it was around 8 cent a litre if not less outside Cairo. I also work with a South African who worked in the petroleum industry, he reckons there are huge stockpiles and anything extracted now will be lucky to hit the forecourts for almost a year so its not the raw material cost in any way shape or form
There are traders speculating heavily on oil at the moment ramming the price up. It shouldnt be allowed on such a valuable commodity that the world needs
 
#21 ·
QUOTE (MarkoC @ Jun 3 2008, 04:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>so basicly if the petrol price is 50c per litre and the barrel price increases, no petrol station will do the business with loss, so they have to increase the price lets say 10 cents, correct ? same time government will add extra 10 cents + vat, so the most money will get the government here, not the main fuel seller ! ! !

The main fuel seller isn't gaining. Its the oil companies and the goverment. As the price goes up in the garage the goverment get more VAT.
 
#22 ·
QUOTE (Micky 32 @ Jun 3 2008, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The main fuel seller isn't gaining. Its the oil companies and the goverment. As the price goes up in the garage the goverment get more VAT.
correct
if YOU selling your stuff for 45 cents as a main supplier, next company WILL sell it for the 50 cents as theyr want money for the wages and ESB and so on, and the government will add extra 70, so you will blame the "next company" for the price that your friend will get the stuff from the shop ?
yeah shoot them lol, little bit more thinking and u will understand that the MAIN problem here is the TAX
oil company ?
yeah you go to the Merc factory and tell them to fook off, the car is worth 3 x less !
what u think, u get the oil for ever ? dream on, gold has its price and now the OIL has its price, fight or do whatever u want, u just making urselves fools here ...