The first bad signs!!! :(

[Scottie]

I paid for normal unleaded 83.90 on Friday at BP in Inverness.

Normally I put in either Shell Optimax or BP Ultimate Unleaded I try and stay loyal to BP though no matter the price.

Mind you depending on where you stay when you go to Tesco's or Safeways you get BP product.

[donniem]

And straight in at number one,the wonderful Isle of Lewis where surprise,surprise,today we are paying 91.9p a litre,will update you next week when we hit the magic quid.

[Wul]

This just appeared in my inbox this morning!:

"We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. ant 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. 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 at
77p -80p, 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 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 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
Action:
It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol
at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p)Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and
Esso."

[macblob]

Ohh well ill keep with Shell then.
Only ever used BP occasionally anyway and havent used esso for ages.
Shell is also on my way to work

[Fontal]

If I want to buy non BP I will have to do a 60 mile round trip each time to fill up :( also the client I work for is BP so I better not send that from my pc :I

[Scottie]

Right I confess Please do not give me a hard time. But I work for BP Oil UK.
I work in the UK RETAIL TEAM looking after petrol stations in the north of Scotland and the Islands please keep buying BP it's the best I need my job.

[Starky]

quote:Originally posted by thornef

Right I confess Please do not give me a hard time. But I work for BP Oil UK.
I work in the UK RETAIL TEAM looking after petrol stations in the north of Scotland and the Islands please keep buying BP it's the best I need my job.

Aye Fiona an we'll all need two jobs soon to pay for a tank of petrol.

[Scottie]

I know I know. I would e-mail Lord Browne but do not think he would listen what whith his million pounds or so bonus he could buy all our petrol for the next few years.