Petrol Prices

[Trough Lolly]

I love watching how you city people winge about fuel prices.. rofl come for a drive to the friggin country and then have a cry!!

just the other day I payed $1.28 for Premium at Mobil!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's just pure wrong.

[drcook]

Apparently we are going to hit close to $1.35 a litre by the winter.  If  this happens the prices will flow on down to the price of every thing we  buy!  Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP at .89 / .95 cents, 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: BP and Mobil). 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 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!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (and not buy at BP and Mobil) 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!!!  I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! 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 80 cents a LITRE RANGE.

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Caltex, GAS. or Gull Outlets and drive past  BP and MOBIL  Stations.

Barry Minster

State President

Ex Service, Service & Veterans Party

www.esvp.asn.au

13 Ermington Place

Kew 3101

Telephone: 03 9816 9713

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suits me, ive got a caltex fuel card

[ZAP]

In the UK you are paying over $2 p/l

[drcook]

In the UK you are paying over $2 p/l 

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but who gives a toss about the poms

[Turbofalke]

The theory would certainly create disruption in stable fuel prices. But essentially will fail as the single most important factor in driving fuel price remains unchanged - DEMAND.

Oil producers are setting high prices to stem increasing global demand and maintain their supernormal profits. As far as the big picture goes, we can do nothing to effect change as Oz demand is bugger all on a global basis (keep an eye on China - if china had the same personal vehicle population ratio as the 1st world conties, then the fuel price would be 10 fold).

In the short term 1 of 2 things needs to happen IMO.

1 - Russia starts pumping as it can as they are the 2nd largest producer of crude behind Saudi Arabia - they are holding back to suit their own adgenda. They alone can effect OPEC's pricing stategy.

OPECs members are:

Iraq September 1960 Founder Member

Kuwait September 1960 Founder Member

Saudi Arabia September 1960 Founder Member

Venezuela September 1960 Founder Member

Qatar December 1960 Full Member

Libya December 1962 Full Member

Indonesia December 1962 Full Member

United Arab Emirates November 1967 Full Member

Algeria July 1969 Full Member

Nigeria July 1971 Full Member

Gabon December 1973 Associate Member

These 11 members hold 75% of the worlds estimated oil reserves (about 10,000,000,000,000 barrels)

A shift in the balance of power is needed to effect pricing change - Shake the tree

2: The other way to reduce pricing - Everyone catches a Bus/train, rides a bike, stops using plastic bags etc etc

The outlook does not look good at all.

Have a great day

[BADGERSXR6TUTE]

I love watching how you city people winge about fuel prices.. rofl come for a drive to the friggin country and then have a cry!!

just the other day I payed $1.28 for Premium at Mobil!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's just pure wrong.

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right on trough lolly that's the same price I'm paying here in country tas, I also like the idea but I only have a BP and Mobil in my town! and the BP is the only one with premium at he moment

[Blown BA]

I love watching how you city people winge about fuel prices.. rofl come for a drive to the friggin country and then have a cry!!

just the other day I payed $1.28 for Premium at Mobil!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's just pure wrong.

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right on trough lolly that's the same price I'm paying here in country tas, I also like the idea but I only have a BP and Mobil in my town! and the BP is the only one with premium at he moment

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That's funny he on the Penisula it's the same price

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I love watching how you city people winge about fuel prices.. rofl come for a drive to the friggin country and then have a cry!!

just the other day I payed $1.28 for Premium at Mobil!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's just pure wrong.

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right on trough lolly that's the same price I'm paying here in country tas, I also like the idea but I only have a BP and Mobil in my town! and the BP is the only one with premium at he moment

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That's funny he on the Penisula it's the same price

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That's funny, up here in the mother state we get about three litres for your every two! Oh that's right, our state government doesn't rip us off as much.

Beautiful one day; perfect the next

Trent.

[OwnaXR6T]

Well you've just reached over 6000 members...hehe

I don't buy fuel from BP or Mobil, got shell fuel card :(

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My parents own mobil servo stations, Please still buy from Mobil Please...

I have a shell card though.

BP and Mobil arn't the biggest here anyway!!!

If you ask me Shell is the biggest and it should be gaining more market share due to the coles shoper dockets!! Caltex has wolworths dockets accepted but they still are pretty crap.

[tupperware]

Well you've just reached over 6000 members...hehe

I don't buy fuel from BP or Mobil, got shell fuel card :(

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My parents own mobil servo stations, Please still buy from Mobil Please...

I have a shell card though.

BP and Mobil arn't the biggest here anyway!!!

If you ask me Shell is the biggest and it should be gaining more market share due to the coles shoper dockets!! Caltex has wolworths dockets accepted but they still are pretty crap.

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From my understanding the Shell servo's are now owned by Coles since the discounting scheme