OT: High Fuel Prices

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 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!!! 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.

"FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... 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. <snipped> > 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. Why let Shell off the hook? I can't see this one working anyway. The oil 'market' isn't a normal open buyer's market and is, effectively, controlled by a (in virtually all other circumstances illegal) cartel - OPEC - who are, at the moment, strangling production. That's why prices are high. Plus the petrol forecourts don't actually make that much money for the oil companies - not enough to worry about a car user boycott anyway, however effective it appears to be in emptying forecourts. Cheers, Probert.

"FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message Petrol is only 45% of each barrel of oil, the other 55% is used by industry. You can boycott all you want and it's not going to make a shits bit of difference.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (FooAtari) wrote: > We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be > faced with paying �1 a ltr. And then �2, and then even more. Welcome to the future. It's like the past, only with a lot less oil and a lot more worried car dealers. Look at... http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ Now go put "peak oil" into Google. Then contemplate China & India's rapidly developing oil needs. Finally, buy a bike before prices of those start to rocket too. Andrew McP... getting about 4,000 miles per electric-gallon out of GPL

Fuel prices are that high because of all the taxes. Here in The Netherlands around 70% of the price is taxes ... oil companies can't do anything about that.

"Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted text (7 lines)

> > > Petrol is only 45% of each barrel of oil, the other 55% is used by industry. > Only 20 % of that 45% is used by consumers in their cars. > You can boycott all you want and it's not going to make a shits bit of difference. > >

Probert wrote:

Quoted text (25 lines)

> > "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... 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. > > <snipped> > > 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. > > Why let Shell off the hook? > > I can't see this one working anyway. The oil 'market' isn't a normal > open buyer's market and is, effectively, controlled by a (in > virtually all other circumstances illegal) cartel - OPEC - who are, > at the moment, strangling production. That's why prices are high. > > Plus the petrol forecourts don't actually make that much money for > the oil companies - not enough to worry about a car user boycott > anyway, however effective it appears to be in emptying forecourts. >

This has been doing the rounds for a while now... I've had at least a dozen e-mails repeating this word-for-word. Totally pointless, will have no effect whatsoever, since the bulk of the price per litre in the UK goes to ther government.

Probert wrote:

Quoted text (7 lines)

> "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > 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. > > Why let Shell off the hook?

I'd let Shell off the hook because they are the only place in the UK to get 98RON fuel, BP and Esso are 97RON, I wouldn't even want to guess about the crap you get at supermarkets. The RenaultSport Clio, uh, *strongly recommends* 98RON, and it makes a difference...

Nick wrote: > I wouldn't even want to guess > about the crap you get at supermarkets. Our local Sainsburys is BP... 5p per litre off when you spend �50 or more at the supermarket... saves me a bit on my 65-litre tankfulls...

Andrew MacPherson wrote:

Quoted text (9 lines)

> (...) > And then �2, and then even more. Welcome to the future. It's like the > past, only with a lot less oil and a lot more worried car dealers. > > Look at... > http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ > Now go put "peak oil" into Google. > Then contemplate China & India's rapidly developing oil needs. > Finally, buy a bike before prices of those start to rocket too.

I can't wait to drive the race-tuned C5's (I mean Sir Clive's design, not Chevies) in Simbin's Eco-Marathon Legends demo in 2015 (I bet manual editing of the Axis center="0.5000" lines in the *.plr file for brake and throttle controls will still be required, though). > Andrew McP... getting about 4,000 miles per electric-gallon out of GPL In the Brabham maybe. Not with the BRM. :) I can't wait Mr. S.

Andrew MacPherson wrote:

Quoted text (9 lines)

> (...) > And then �2, and then even more. Welcome to the future. It's like the > past, only with a lot less oil and a lot more worried car dealers. > > Look at... > http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ > Now go put "peak oil" into Google. > Then contemplate China & India's rapidly developing oil needs. > Finally, buy a bike before prices of those start to rocket too.

I can't wait to drive the race-tuned C5's (I mean Sir Clive's design, not Chevies) in Simbin's Eco-Marathon Legends demo in 2015 (I bet manual editing of the Axis center="0.5000" lines in the *.plr file for brake and throttle controls will still be required, though). > Andrew McP... getting about 4,000 miles per electric-gallon out of GPL In the Brabham maybe. Not with the BRM. :) Regards, Mr. Sylvestre

In article <430641c0$0$10951$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Mr. Sylvestre) wrote: > In the Brabham maybe. Not with the BRM. :) :-) If I was more patient I'd sit and work out how many units of electricity it costs to run GPL per mile. Not many I suspect... especially as you use the same amount of electricity no matter how fast you drive. Andrew McP

FooAtari wrote: > Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me; > (snip)

Quoted text (13 lines)

> > 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.

Between 60 and 70% of what we pay per litre of petrol is tax. Petrol stations would suffer if this scheme were adhered to, yet they make virtually no profit from petrol sales. So, not a very good idea, methinks. Doc >

Doc Knutsen <[email hidden]> wrote in message: news:<[email hidden]>

Quoted text (28 lines)

> > >FooAtari wrote: >> Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me; >> >(snip) >> >> 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. > >Between 60 and 70% of what we pay per litre of petrol is tax. Petrol >stations would suffer if this scheme were adhered to, yet they make >virtually no profit from petrol sales. So, not a very good idea, methinks. > Doc > >> > >

I think that everyone should hold their breath until gas prices drop to 1999 prices. The oil companies will obviously give everyone cheap gas when the dead bodies start piling up at the filling stations.

"Gas Warrior UK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > I think that everyone should hold their breath until gas prices drop to 1999 > prices. The oil companies will obviously give everyone cheap gas when the > dead bodies start piling up at the filling stations. Makes about as much sense as the original suggestion, but a lot funnier! :)

"FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... 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. 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

On 19 Aug 2005 04:51:46 -0700, "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted text (11 lines)

>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.

Let me get this straight... you want half the population of Europe to drive to Morrisons for their petrol? >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. And who do the supermarkets buy their petrol from?, go on... have a guess...

FooAtari wrote: > 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 no rows selected | Reply: [email hidden]

"Justin Wigg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted text (16 lines)

> FooAtari wrote: > > 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.

Justin Wigg wrote:

Quoted text (15 lines)

> FooAtari wrote: > > 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!

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

Quoted text (26 lines)

> Subject: Re: OT: High Fuel Prices > From: "Justin Wigg" <[email hidden]> > Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.rally, rec.autos.simulators, uk.games.video.gamecube, rec.autos.sport.f1, rec.motorcycles.racing > > FooAtari wrote: > > 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 > no rows selected | Reply: [email hidden] > > >

$1.13/L Canadian here, that's $0.84 US. I expect it will go much higher until they finally find a price that people won't pay, and then they will drop it 5 cents...

Andrew MacPherson wrote: > (...) > 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)

We just went over $3 a gallon in Northern Virginia. 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 "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... 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 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!!! 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.

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.

Smoke wrote:

Quoted text (9 lines)

> 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.

In article <[email hidden]>, Smoke <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted text (46 lines)

> 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.

In article <[email hidden]>, FooAtari says... > 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. > ROFLMAO...another fuckwit who doesn't know where petrol comes from. -- Conor The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. - Pink Floyd

In article <[email hidden]>, X201 says... > Let me get this straight... you want half the population of Europe to > drive to Morrisons for their petrol? > 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

Conor <[email hidden]> wrote in news:MPG.1d7c3789ed0e0d3a98a968 @news.individual.net: > ROFLMAO...another fuckwit 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

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

Quoted text (21 lines)

> Conor <[email hidden]> wrote in news:MPG.1d7c3789ed0e0d3a98a968 > @news.individual.net: > > > ROFLMAO...another fuckwit 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.

In article <[email hidden]>, Dave Henrie says...

Quoted text (18 lines)

> Conor <[email hidden]> wrote in news:MPG.1d7c3789ed0e0d3a98a968 > @news.individual.net: > > > ROFLMAO...another fuckwit 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.

The worst thing about this way of doing it is that it is the only way... This world needs more gas than ever, and the production is declining... You can blame taxes, gas companies, OPEC, whoever you want, prices won't stop rising. And at one point economies will collapse. And the non-oil-dependant industries will remain untouched by the collapse. I think it would be a good idea to invest in non-oil-dependant industries right now. Who can tell when things will collapse. I don't even know if "collapsing" is such a bad thing anyway, since our western economies are built on exploitation of this planet and it's inhabitants in every possible way. ---A--- On 20.08.2005 13:13, Gas Warrior UK wrote: > Doc Knutsen <[email hidden]> wrote in message: > news:<[email hidden]> > I think that everyone should hold their breath until gas prices drop to 1999 > prices. The oil companies will obviously give everyone cheap gas when the > dead bodies start piling up at the filling stations.

Quoted text (7 lines)

> "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> a �crit dans le message de > news:[email hidden]... > Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me; > > 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

Yes, and as well I suggest to: _ Stop buying consoles from sony and microsoft _ Stop buying cars from the 2 biggest car manufacturer _ Stop buying hot dogs from 2 biggest hot dogs brands _ Stop talking to ugly/average looking women, and even if they are pretty talk to them only when they go to the beach Then: Every thing will be cheap: hot dogs will cost 1p, xbox 360 and PS3 5 � ( 4� for the revolution) with 1� for a game, the fatest cars for no more than100 �, and on top of that, all women will turn gorgeous (subscription to the gym will be very cheap by then) and will always wear bikinis. I am suprised nobody thought about that earlier... The only problem I can think of is that with hot dogs and chocolate bars so cheap, the effect on women may be not what we expect. Ant.

Antonin PAVIL <[email hidden]> wrote in message: news:<df26rg$bsd$[email hidden]>

Quoted text (33 lines)

> >> "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> a écrit dans le message de >> news:[email hidden]... >> Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me; >> >> 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 > >Yes, and as well I suggest to: >_ Stop buying consoles from sony and microsoft >_ Stop buying cars from the 2 biggest car manufacturer >_ Stop buying hot dogs from 2 biggest hot dogs brands >_ Stop talking to ugly/average looking women, and even if they are pretty >talk to them only when they go to the beach > >Then: > >Every thing will be cheap: hot dogs will cost 1p, xbox 360 and PS3 5 £ ( 4£ >for the revolution) with 1£ for a game, the fatest cars for no more than100 >£, and on top of that, all women will turn gorgeous (subscription to the >gym will be very cheap by then) and will always wear bikinis. > >I am suprised nobody thought about that earlier... >The only problem I can think of is that with hot dogs and chocolate bars so >cheap, the effect on women may be not what we expect. > >Ant. > > > > >

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5611481466

Time to go look at an Escape! :) $3.03 in NW Iowa Tim "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:SBnOe.9338$A33.3087@lakeread06...

Quoted text (73 lines)

> We just went over $3 a gallon in Northern Virginia. > > 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 > > "FooAtari" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > 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 > 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!!! > 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. > >