fuel prices

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Found this on another forum.
Would this work ?

Please forward this on, if you don't drive forward it to someone who does. Who knows maybe we can have an impact!
We are hitting £1.25 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 a litre. Well over £6 a gallon for the older readers!!
As a result, everything else is costing more, too.
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.
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 i t 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
Get Started!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Why not just simply drive less? I do this and I find I generally save myself money.

 

[Juan Albion]

This has been around on the Internet for YEARS. I am astonished that people still fall for these things. Yet this has been posted at least twice on here this week.

Rule of thumb: If it says 'forward this to your mates' (or similar) then it is almost certainly not to be trusted.

 

[algie]

Why not just simply drive less? I do this and I find I generally save myself money.

Oh thats the answer.Why didn't i think of that.Not that Labour keeps hitting fuel prices as well as all the other taxes, bills that have increased ten fold since they got in.Thats a tipical response of a plank
I must tell all the haulage companies,taxis,public transport,supermarkets etc your simple answer.

 

[sod1]

shell,bp,esso probably control all the refineries in UK between them, so all they will do is up the wholesale prices to the likes of sainsburys,tescos etc...who in turn will pass this on to Joe public

 

[Marc]

face facts people, the oil is running out, the companies know this so are hiking prices to make mass profits now so they wont collapse (as such) in the future. Giving them plenty of time & money in order to resource other means of fuel.

Prices wont stop going up, the public wont stop buying fuel for any period of time as they need it, its just like Motorway Service Stations charging more for food/drink because the public have no other choice!

 

[Gully]

Why not just simply drive less? I do this and I find I generally save myself money.

Not as stupid as it sounds, if I need to go maybe a mile or less I now walk and leave the car at home...have just dusted off my old push-treader to bomb around town on.

 

[algie]

Not as stupid as it sounds, if I need to go maybe a mile or less I now walk and leave the car at home...have just dusted off my old push-treader to bomb around town on.

But why should you be forced of the roads?

 

[Gully]

I am not being forced off the roads, it is often quicker to walk short distances than it is to drive, it is also healthier to cycle...the rising fuel prices have made me reconsider how I use my car, probably not a bad idea.

 

[mona]

Why not just simply drive less? I do this and I find I generally save myself money.

Great idea but some people have to drive vehicles for their work. We can't all walk and cycle to permanent work places.

 

[Was not Was]

But why should you be forced of the roads?

The cost of driving is starting to reflect its true impact on the climate, environment - and the fact that the oil is going to run out. Driving has been subsidised for so long because we didn't realise until recently how harmful it was.

People will drive less - and fewer people will drive - if it's more expensive. Same as anything else.

If I can't afford a house, I don't blame the government for "forcing me to live in a flat" - so it's nonsense to talk about being "forced off the roads" as though you, me or anyone has a god-given right to drive.

 

[Cian]

Posted here already
Dismantled here already as being totally inaccurate and not having a chance of working.

If you forwarded it to anyone, please remove yourself from the planet for perpetuating spam, thanks. Only after killing whoever sent it to you, of course.

That said, I think its 'antique chain mail month', I got the "James Bulger's killers are about to be released!" one there a few days ago. Only problems being the email address it said to send the petitions to is gone; and they got released, um, 7 years ago?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

But why should you be forced of the roads?

There is no perfect solution, but do you not think Brighton (and everywhere else) would be a better place if there were not so many cars on the roads? Almost every weekend (mainly the summer months) Lewes Rd, London Rd, Kings Rd etc. are gridlocked with people churning out fumes. All of the best areas in Brighton are traffic free. I see it as being a quality of life choice. If we can force people to take an alternative form of transport and cut down the amount of traffic then I am all for increases in fuel duty, despite the knock on effect on consumer goods.

The amount of cars you see that are not full to capacity (alot being just a single driver) makes you wonder how much money is wasted and how much extra traffic is produced.

Car sharing. Buses. Trains. Bicycles. Walking. Options aplenty!

 

[steward 433]

http://www.liftshare.org

A damn good site to look at

 

[BensGrandad]

Wife and I both have bus passes now so we fill up the car once every 10 days as opposed to 1 every 5 days. We use the bus to go any where if it is just her and me and only use the car if we are giving anybody a lift or picking them up etc.

The only problem is that the last bus from Brighton to Haywards Heath is 6.35pm from Churchill Sq or 7.00pm from Royal Sussex Hospital and none on Sundays they do not do a lot to encourage people to use buses.

 

[Gully]

Your pass should allow you to travel on the train if there is no suitable bus.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

...hey do not do a lot to encourage people to use buses.

That is a key point here. It only needs two of you to be travelling together and the car is a cheaper option. A return trip to Brighton centre would set you back £6.40 (for the two), whereas you can park for a few hours for less than £3 and spend less that the remaining £3.40 on fuel, plus it is much more convenient.

Certain routes are not that regular and there seem to be plenty of buses buzzing about Brighton at less than 30% capacity at key times during the day.

The various councils are missing a trick when it comes to car shares/school run buses. I have seen a few mini-buses for Hurst, Roedean, Lancing etc. which immediatly takes 10+ cars off the road for each school/mini bus.

I work in Chichester and the amount of cars heading into the central zone with just one parent and one child is astonishing. I would say that 90% of the school runners in Chi are 1 parent/1 or 2 children.

I don't understand why Brighton & Hove Buses or the Southern Trains do not do more to aid the situation.

I dream of a large park and ride service at the West, North and East of Brighton, with the capacity to ship large amounts of people into the city at a reasonable cost. There must be sites around the outskirts of Brighton that could cater for this, surely?

 

[bigc]

That is a key point here. It only needs two of you to be travelling together and the car is a cheaper option. A return trip to Brighton centre would set you back £6.40 (for the two), whereas you can park for a few hours for less than £3 and spend less that the remaining £3.40 on fuel, plus it is much more convenient.

Certain routes are not that regular and there seem to be plenty of buses buzzing about Brighton at less than 30% capacity at key times during the day.

The various councils are missing a trick when it comes to car shares/school run buses. I have seen a few mini-buses for Hurst, Roedean, Lancing etc. which immediatly takes 10+ cars off the road for each school/mini bus.

I work in Chichester and the amount of cars heading into the central zone with just one parent and one child is astonishing. I would say that 90% of the school runners in Chi are 1 parent/1 or 2 children.

I don't understand why Brighton & Hove Buses or the Southern Trains do not do more to aid the situation.

I dream of a large park and ride service at the West, North and East of Brighton, with the capacity to ship large amounts of people into the city at a reasonable cost. There must be sites around the outskirts of Brighton that could cater for this, surely?

Talking of the school run, it would be interesting to see if kids getting free bus travel in London helped to diminish the impact of the school run, I'm sure it has.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Look at the AA Tables of motoring costs.

http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/advice/advice_rcosts_petrol_table.jsp

If you do 15,000 miles a year in a car that cost up to £10,000, the TOTAL cost of motoring is 30.92 pence per mile, when fuel is 106.8p a litre.

If fuel was 120p a litre (an increase of 12.4%), the total cost of motoring goes up by 1.32 pence per mile (or just 4.3%).

If fuel prices HALVED, the total cost of motoring would drop by 5.34 pence per mile (or just 17.3%)

Cut your mileage by about 5 per cent and you can survive a fuel price increase of 12.4% and end up spending no more money on motoring than you did before.

It's obviously tougher if your employer subsidises your private motoring, by paying for most of the standing costs of running your car ... but hey! why should anyone give a toss about you whinging about fuel prices if that's the case?

 

[Gully]

If you cut out all the short journeys, say within a mile of your home, I reckon the savings would be even greater...fuel economy is at its worst until your engine is fully warmed up, certainly far better on a long run. By walking instead (or cycling) you reduce your fuel consumption, save money, spew out less pollutants and keep fit into the bargain...everyone's a winner!