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OT: High Fuel Prices

Niall Wallac

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Niall Wallac » Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:35:53


Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;

Its beyond 1 a litre in some areas.

Its damn difficult to boycot BP in Scotland since Shell get their stuff from
Grangemouth.(Excluding Optimax)

Don't know where Esso get their stuff from here but theres Gulf, Texaco and
"Save" as well, but its akin to putting water in your tank.

My car recomends 97RON fuel, but to be honest i don't notice the difference
between 95RON, Optimax, BP Advance or Super Unleaded though I shoudl be
running it on 4 star and haven't been using additive and haven't bothered
swapping the head for one i took off my old car which i know is set up for
lead free fuel.

Niall

X201

OT: High Fuel Prices

by X201 » Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:19:22

On 19 Aug 2005 04:51:46 -0700, "FooAtari"


>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
>e***d 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.

Let me get this straight... you want half the population of Europe to
drive to Morrisons for their petrol?

And who do the supermarkets buy their petrol from?, go on... have a
guess...

Justin Wig

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Justin Wig » Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:26:32


> Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;

<snip>

I had the same thing emailed to me a couple of months ago with the
company names changed.

Got me thinking though.  Which country has the highest corrected petrol
prices at the moment?  It's about AUD$1.25 per litre here at the
moment, which really hurts when filling the tank.  That's about 52p, 77
Euro or USD$0.94 per litre/"liter".  (USD$4.73 per gallon.)

How does that compare with what you northern hemisphere types are
paying?
--
SQL> select * from users  | Justin Wigg - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
     where clue > 0;      | http://juthan.blogspot.com

Dave

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Dave » Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:34:19



> > Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;

> <snip>

> I had the same thing emailed to me a couple of months ago with the
> company names changed.

> Got me thinking though.  Which country has the highest corrected petrol
> prices at the moment?  It's about AUD$1.25 per litre here at the
> moment, which really hurts when filling the tank.  That's about 52p, 77
> Euro or USD$0.94 per litre/"liter".  (USD$4.73 per gallon.)

> How does that compare with what you northern hemisphere types are
> paying?
> --

2.56 per gallon.
Paul-

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Paul- » Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:34:44



> > Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;

> <snip>

> I had the same thing emailed to me a couple of months ago with the
> company names changed.

> Got me thinking though.  Which country has the highest corrected
> petrol prices at the moment?  It's about AUD$1.25 per litre here at
> the moment, which really hurts when filling the tank.  That's about
> 52p, 77 Euro or USD$0.94 per litre/"liter".  (USD$4.73 per gallon.)

> How does that compare with what you northern hemisphere types are
> paying?

0.92 per litre last week at Sainsburys.

--
Paul-B... the original and the best!

Mr. Sylvestr

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Mr. Sylvestr » Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:06:56


> (...)
> especially as you use the same amount of electricity no matter how fast
> you drive.

Actually, you use a fixed amount of electricity *per unit time* you
drive (OK, the BRM sounds louder, so the sound card could suck a little
more electricity, but we'll neglect that).  So, slower cars/drivers
needing more time to cover the race distance actually do use more
electricity per virtual mile.

Regards,
Mr. "poor mileage" Sylvestre (GPLrank in the + sixties)

Larr

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Larr » Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:05:59

We just went over $3 a gallon in Northern ***ia.

I know for some of you Europeans that's no big deal, but for the US and the
US economy structure, it's coming close to the end of the freakin' world :)

I picked one HELL of a time to buy an Explorer LOL!

Yes, I need it.  Shut the hell up :)

-Larry


Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;

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
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 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. 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
e***d 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!!!
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 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.

Smok

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Smok » Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:40:43

Well i just read at CNN that we dutchies pay the most. Very very nice
:-(

check out http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

Nation vs Price in USD Regular/Gallon

Netherlands $6.48
Norway $6.27
Italy $5.96
Denmark $5.93
Belgium $5.91
Sweden $5.80
United Kingdom $5.79
Germany $5.57
France $5.54
Portugal $5.35
Hungary $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia $4.81
Ireland $4.78
Switzerland $4.74
Spain $4.55
Japan $4.24
Czech Republic $4.19
Romania $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia $3.62
Bulgaria $3.52
Brazil $3.12
Cuba $3.03
Taiwan $2.84
Lebanon $2.63
South Africa $2.62
Nicaragua $2.61
Panama $2.19
Russia $2.10
Puerto Rico $1.74
Saudi Arabia $0.91
Kuwait $0.78
Egypt $0.65
Nigeria $0.38
Venezuela $0.12

And prices are still rising.

[ste parker

OT: High Fuel Prices

by [ste parker » Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:05:55


> Well i just read at CNN that we dutchies pay the most. Very very nice
> :-(

> check out http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

> Nation vs Price in USD Regular/Gallon

> Netherlands $6.48
> United Kingdom $5.79

Well I'm not sure that's not right, I'm almost certain I paid less per
litre when I filled up a car in Holland on Friday compared to filling up
my own car in the UK on Saturday.  Maybe it was a diesel car though.

In fact, this suggests it probably was:

http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/

--
[ste]
"Calling a player who needs a lot of persuasion to stay at the
club 'loyal' is as silly as saying someone who needs to be coaxed
out of jumping off a building 'loves life'" F365 letters.

Jonathan Peirc

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Jonathan Peirc » Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:44:46



> Well i just read at CNN that we dutchies pay the most. Very very nice
> :-(

> check out http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

> Nation vs Price in USD Regular/Gallon

> Netherlands $6.48
> Norway $6.27
> Italy $5.96
> Denmark $5.93
> Belgium $5.91
> Sweden $5.80
> United Kingdom $5.79
> Germany $5.57
> France $5.54
> Portugal $5.35
> Hungary $4.94
> Luxembourg $4.82
> Croatia $4.81
> Ireland $4.78
> Switzerland $4.74
> Spain $4.55
> Japan $4.24
> Czech Republic $4.19
> Romania $4.09
> Andorra $4.08
> Estonia $3.62
> Bulgaria $3.52
> Brazil $3.12
> Cuba $3.03
> Taiwan $2.84
> Lebanon $2.63
> South Africa $2.62
> Nicaragua $2.61
> Panama $2.19
> Russia $2.10
> Puerto Rico $1.74
> Saudi Arabia $0.91
> Kuwait $0.78
> Egypt $0.65
> Nigeria $0.38
> Venezuela $0.12

> And prices are still rising.

There are 2 countries missing on this list that I'd like to see...
the US (I just paid $2.60), and Iraq.
Cono

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Cono » Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:05:51


FooAtari says...

ROFLMAO...another ***wit who doesn't know where petrol comes from.

--
Conor

The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb. - Pink Floyd

Cono

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Cono » Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:06:42


THat'll be the Morrisons tankers that fill up at Shell refineries will
it?

--
Conor

The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb. - Pink Floyd

Dave Henri

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Dave Henri » Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:16:18


   Petrol, as any non fwit knows, comes from the root word Pet and Roll.  
Thus it refers to a pet rolling.  As we all know.  MAny pets like to roll,  
So, we can infer that petrol comes from wherever pets roll.  In case you
are still doubtful, think about this,  a Pet Roll is often left behind to
decompose and be covered by dirt, Lying inert for hundred of minutes before
being broken down into it's core components.  As anyone knows, DOGS chew
lots of plastic,  Thus the PET ROLL decomposes back to it's plastic base
and thus when underground is reconstituted into oil, Black Gold, Texas Tea.

glad i could be of service to you in clearly explaining this matter>

dave henrie

David Melvill

OT: High Fuel Prices

by David Melvill » Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:43:59





> > ROFLMAO...another ***wit who doesn't know where petrol comes from.

>    Petrol, as any non fwit knows, comes from the root word Pet and Roll.  
> Thus it refers to a pet rolling.  As we all know.  MAny pets like to roll,  
> So, we can infer that petrol comes from wherever pets roll.  In case you
> are still doubtful, think about this,  a Pet Roll is often left behind to
> decompose and be covered by dirt, Lying inert for hundred of minutes before
> being broken down into it's core components.  As anyone knows, DOGS chew
> lots of plastic,  Thus the PET ROLL decomposes back to it's plastic base
> and thus when underground is reconstituted into oil, Black Gold, Texas Tea.

> glad i could be of service to you in clearly explaining this matter>

> dave henrie

<leaves, nodding slowly, and considering the word "therapist">

Dave.

Cono

OT: High Fuel Prices

by Cono » Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:23:07


Henrie says...


> > ROFLMAO...another ***wit who doesn't know where petrol comes from.

>    Petrol, as any non fwit knows, comes from the root word Pet and Roll.  
> Thus it refers to a pet rolling.  As we all know.  MAny pets like to roll,  
> So, we can infer that petrol comes from wherever pets roll.  In case you
> are still doubtful, think about this,  a Pet Roll is often left behind to
> decompose and be covered by dirt, Lying inert for hundred of minutes before
> being broken down into it's core components.  As anyone knows, DOGS chew
> lots of plastic,  Thus the PET ROLL decomposes back to it's plastic base
> and thus when underground is reconstituted into oil, Black Gold, Texas Tea.

> glad i could be of service to you in clearly explaining this matter>

Pillock.

--
Conor

"You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.


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