Petrol prices

Local lass · Petrol prices

£1.11 p in malbrough its disgusting.

Clunk

£1.06 in sainsburys Chippenham.
I feel sorry for my friend. He has this to drive.

It costs him £90 to fill it up. It is his pride and joy. A 4.2 litre V8. As you can see, his kids have an interesting trip to school. He has had to buy a diesel 106 for his trip to work as driving the rangie costs him £140 per week in fuel to do the 80 mile round trip every day. Where as the pug costs him £30

kathy27

Ive got a shogun 3 litre,(my baby) its not as bad on fuel as people think, to fill her up costs about £70. now a days. Which will last me a couple of weeks, Its better on long trips as with most cars

Local lass

mine costs fifty quid to fill and lasts for about a week and half.
what gets me though is we just take it no one does anything about it.
no wonder a lot of lorry companys are going a broard.

kathy27

The thing is what can we do? we all need our cars for one reason or another so they have got us over a barrel.

Bear

If and its a big if we all got organised and boycotted one of the big fuel companies it would have to reduce its prices to get back the trade

kathy27

I had this email sent to me, (sorry its abit long)
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

We are hitting 99.9p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced
with paying £1+ a ltr. 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 whimp 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 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

Clunk

I buy from sainsbury's anyway. Not to boycott, but because of collecting premier points or nectar or whatever they are called now.
But I wholeheartedly agree.
I only put £10 a week in mine. £15 If I am going underground at some point. It lasts me fine.

Local lass

not sure if that will work.they do have us over a barrol as we all need fuel.
although some people have started converting the cars to veg oil.

Clunk

It will work.
Just need everyone to do it.
The catch is that 70% of vehicles on the road between 9 to 5 are being driven by people who don't own the vehicle or don't pay for fuel.
Lorries, vans, taxi's, sales reps all fall into this catergory.
It is these people we need to get to join in.

Kizzy

Sainsburys in Melksham is 102.9 (well was when i filled up last Tuesday) It costs me about £35 to fill my car and lasts me approx 350 miles (or 9 days) with travelling to and from work and weekend shopping

pimpdriver

£1.019 for SHELL in Wootton Bassett.

Don't buy supermarket fuel, you MIGHT save 50p/tank but can you remember those problems last summer with air flow meters???

Buy branded - its better for your engine.

I just filled mine up today, 65 litres cost me £75. I use Shell V power and get 28mpg, and drive 550 miles a week just commuting....

Clunk

The problems were caused by a contaminated tanker. The tanks were not washed out properly and what was in there before contaminated the fuel. The quality of the fuel is as good as 'branded' fuel as you put it. Personally, if I had a choice of vehicles, I would have my old LDV200 back. It was a diesel that gave me 40mpg, and because it was ex mod, you could guarantee no matter how dirty the fuel was, it would still work.

pimpdriver

My old VW diesel ran better and got better mpg on BP Ultimate unleaded, about 25 miles extra per tank. I was doing 400 miles a week of the same kind of driving. Supermarket fuel doesn't contain as many detergents and additives, and round here is the same price as branded....

pimpdriver

Chepfer

I hate to say it but BP and esso supply most of the petrol to the uk stations anyway !!

All the supermarkets including Sainburies buy from B.P !

Total are owned by ESSO

Theres a huge monopoly out the running the whole thing and theres not alot we can do about it.

Apart from....... Walk... Cycle.... Etc..... but then if no one buy the fuel...... then it'll get even more expensive as the companys need to meet there (greedy) profits margins !

Very Happy

and Yes i have 3 cars..... !

Clunk

I just happened to glance at the adverts on this page after reading Chepfers post.
This amused me.

Chepfer

CLUNK... Blimey that was well spotted !!.

So you can even buy B.P's fuel online now.... Now that is clever !