Fuel Blockades

[Jim Fitzpatrick]

Watching the news and listening toa few drivers i know, we are looking at a very good possibility of anohter round of fuel blockades here in the UK. I'll post more as i find out

[Radar]

A few garages are running scams to get you on to the forecourt by advertising a lower price on the signs than is charged at the pump a Texaco in B'ham has been named and shamed in the local press.
So before you fill up compare the prices.

I have been sent this in a email, copy it and send to as many people as you can.

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.

We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1 a Lt.. 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 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 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.

[delboy69]

there is only one problem with that idea is that most people buy there fuel from the super markets and these two companies supply them so hit at them we would have to pay the higher price the other companies are charging so how do we win

[BullDog]

The thing is, I don't care what name is on the tanker at the time. or the name of the station you fill up at. The fuel comes from one refinery. Shell tankers, Esso, BP,and all the different carriers of fuel all load at the same place. And the loading process is the same at all of them. They get the fuel from the closest refinery. Whether it be an Esso Refinery or any other name in the business.So one thing is for sure, the only drop in fuel prise comes to the the organization/Company that sells the most. As the prises depend on the amount that is purchased. A certain prise for a certain quota of fuel purchased. And the only people that are making a profit is the company that can get a better prises, because they buy a greater amount of fuel.

[Radar]

Unfortunatley over here it is a bit of both the Fuel companies and the goverment that are stiching us up.

The fuel companies original price is far more inflated than in the US then the Goverment slaps on an 80% surcharge.

So for every £1.00 of fuel we buy 80p goes to the goverment in tax, suppposedly for road improvments but they spend less than 20% of the revenue created by the motorist on these so called improvements if they did then we would not complain so much.

[Nuttertrucking]

The fuel companies original price is far more inflated than in the US then the Goverment slaps on an 80% surcharge.

So for every £1.00 of fuel we buy 80p goes to the goverment in tax, suppposedly for road improvments but they spend less that 20% of the revenue created by the motorist on these so called improvements if they did then we would not complain so much.

Quite true Radar, quite true.

[dieseldan]

I know this was a while ago, but around here the prices are more or less back up to where they were before the "protests".