Fuel prices

[CROSSBONES]

Maybe this would work? Had it in an e-mail today.

We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 a litre. 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 on me 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 8 days!!! 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

[Yeshi]

Your in a dream world... or at least the person who written it is...

There is no chance on this earth you will see 69p a litre.. Vat is too high for a start...

another question here.. on budget day they say petrol up by 2p a litre.. so how much do we actually pay.. lol, kind of think we are being robbed as we dont know who gets what...

As for buying off big 2... i dont buy from them and refuse to... dont even bother with shell.. the prices are stupid... bloody 2 slice ham salad around the £2.50 mark :|

[TJExcalibur]

another question here.. on budget day they say petrol up by 2p a litre.. so how much do we actually pay.. lol, kind of think we are being robbed as we dont know who gets what...
:|

Look here, it gives the breakdown of how much Prudence takes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7082847.stm

[2cvbloke]

Here's a much better idea:

Leave the car at home and get the Bus/Train/Tram or go on your bicycle instead...

I have to use public transport, so I don't know why everyone else can't...

[Bbigfoot]

Hi Crossbones,

Its not OPEC who is the Devil, it"s Prudence ( Brown).
He gets 65p out of your £1 you pay for every litre.
Twice as much as it takes the Oil people to take it
out of the ground, Refine IT, Deliver IT.

In the USA they have started to Bitch because its just
went over $3 a gallon (£1.50p a Gallon).

And as for Prudence liking your Parents (OAP).
He but fuel duty UP by 2p on the 1st October, so it would NOT
count in Septembers Inflation Rate figures.

September is the Month used by the Government to set the Increase
in Old Age Pensions for the coming April 08 (3.9%), so sly Prudence
would make the OAP suffer for 12 month knowing HE did not increase
the Duty in September, there By lifting the Inflation rate for that Month
so the OAP could cope a little better for the next 12 months.

BF...

[koansrc]

Funny. We had the same mail do the rounds here in Greece a while back, only then it was "don't buy from Shell" ...

The thing I don't get is, since crude oil is bought and sold in US dollars and the US dollar has dropped against all major currencies, oil prices in local currencies should actually be falling.

[Channel Hopper]

Well, yesterday the 'crisis' hit our area. People were so worried by the hourly price hikes at the pumps they were panic buying, so much so that five stations between here and my second customer were dry.

I actually had to resort to topping up with vegetable oil from the local supermarket. Amazing.

[2cvbloke]

You know, it's best if you use used and filtered oil rather than just buying it off the shelf, just go to your local takeaway tonight and ask if you can have a barrelful of their waste oil, then let it settle for a few days, filter it and hey presto, instant biodiesel...

But 11/10 for your ingenuity though...

[Topper]

You know, it's best if you use used and filtered oil rather than just buying it off the shelf, just go to your local takeaway tonight and ask if you can have a barrelful of their waste oil, then let it settle for a few days, filter it and hey presto, instant biodiesel...

But 11/10 for your ingenuity though...

Not true 2cvbloke

You cannot do that because the oil has been effectively boiled since because it has been used for frying, the higher fractional distillates have boiled off and if you did use it the way you describe you would soon end up with a fuel system full of wax and a car going nowhere. The used oil has to either be modified to add an agent which stops it solidifying or the engine and fuel system has to be modified to accomodated the waxy fuel and stop it blocking things up

[2cvbloke]

Not true 2cvbloke

You cannot do that because the oil has been effectively boiled since because it has been used for frying, the higher fractional distillates have boiled off and if you did use it the way you describe you would soon end up with a fuel system full of wax and a car going nowhere. The used oil has to either be modified to add an agent which stops it solidifying or the engine and fuel system has to be modified to accomodated the waxy fuel and stop it blocking things up

I went back to the magazine I had the info in, and the oil can be used straight aslong as it's "distilled" for 2 weeks, then you get the solid sediment on the bottom (charcoal chips and the waxy stuff) and the oil left ontop is what you use for Biodiesel, it's best to syphon this and then filter it to make sure anything lumpy doesn't get into your engine and knacker up the fuel injectors...

I'd love to try it myself, but I don't have a car, let alone a diesel one, and I don't have a driving licence...

[Topper]

I went back to the magazine I had the info in,

I hope they give a written guarantee with their information then as that is contrary to what I have read recently.