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- Latest post made by Tim Kerr at May 21 05:45 UTC
FW: Petrol prices.
Below is a scheme for forcing down petrol prices.
As markets are very demand-supply conscious NO artificial prices will hold
their price in the market - be they too high ortoo low. It just takes a small
change in demand to re-adjust to a more-or-less true market price.
So maybe boycotting BP is not a bad idea.....
(Read the stuff below...)
Cheers,
Tim Kerr
Original Message From: <email obscured> = Sent: Friday, 16 May 2008
To: <email obscured> = Subject: Petrol prices.
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' PETROL FOR one DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN
GET PETROL BACK DOWN TO $1.00 PER Litre....hopefully.
This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. If you are tired of
the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this winter, take time
to read this PLEASE.
Phillip 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!
It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
We are going to hit $ 2.00 a litre and it might go higher!! Want petrol prices
to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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 on and join with us!
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about $1.50 is cheap. It is
currently $1.90 for regular unleaded.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think
that the cost of a liter of gas is CHEAP at $1.50, we need to take aggressive
action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace...not sellers.
With the price of gasoline 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 pocketbook by not purchasing their petrol! And, we can do that
WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying petrol.
But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act together to force a
price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from BP
NZ the biggest price up driver company.
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 NZ 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 20 people. If each of us s end it to at least ten
more (20 x 10 = 200) .. And those 200 send it to at least ten more (200 x 10 =
2000 ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people,
we will have reached over TWO MILLION consumers. If those three million get
excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 20 million people will have
been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting
together we can make a difference. I am already boycotting BP
If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES
TO BELOW THE $1.50 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK. Simple -
send the message along to other and do not buy petrol from BP NZ.
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B.P. is where PaknSave customers cash in their vouchers for 4cents to 10 cents
a litre discount.
Watch where you buy other products ,At a fish shop ,Akaroa Cod was $9.90kg at a
fish and chip shop it was $15.90kg.
At a supermarket one brand of cheese was $16kg at a fruit and vege,shop another
brand was $8.99kg
Do we boycott all or just share lower prices around as we find them?
brenda dew wrote:
> B.P. is where PaknSave customers cash in their vouchers for 4cents to 10
cents a litre discount.
> Watch where you buy other products ,At a fish shop ,Akaroa Cod was $9.90kg at
a fish and chip shop it was $15.90kg.
> At a supermarket one brand of cheese was $16kg at a fruit and vege,shop
another brand was $8.99kg
> Do we boycott all or just share lower prices around as we find them?
>
How the system works is most perplexing.
Advertising gets at us so we cannot reason very well.
What does Tim suggest about the extra petrol spent to go to the cheaper
petrol? Does he think it is worth actually spending more to prove a
point? And what about the extra time on the road, and the extra traffic
that would be caused? Is that worth it to prove a point?
We are so funny we just want to prove a point rather than do something
about it. One such thing would be to plant some vegetables that get
watered at the same tiome as the lawn. Then there would be less trips to
the shop, petrol saved, fresher, healthier food, lower doctor bills.
There would be less petrol used by the food industry to transport the food.
We could start to investigate solar ovens, and so save NZ's oil bill.
The petrol thing is easy to use as a political football. People don't
really think. So if a political party says they will reduce petrol tax
they may go for them without really looking into it. If petrol tax is
reduced then people will be less careful with NZ's oil bill. And the
revenue will have to be gained elsewhere. To drive a car needs some sort
of education, reading ability generally. So how will that be
acknowledged? Some of the petrol tax will have been going to that
education. Cars cause health problems through noise vibration, air
pollution, reduced physical activity. How will that be acknowledged? Are
the non-car-users expected to subsidise health bills of the car users in
taxes?
If we go to totally user pays there may be some big surprises. Adverts
on National Radio, more on TV, a charge on library books, a charge on
police services, a general move to lowest common denominator markets.
Brian Sandle
Tim, An alternative to boycotting BP would be to blockade the motorways in
Auckland and Wellington untill the government agrees to reduce eliminate the
Crown excise duty currently being spent on regional land transport programs in
Auckland and Wellington. We are currently losing over half the money we pay
into the Land Transport Fund. Six cents a litre to other South Island regions
from which we gain some benefit it terms of tourist traffic, and 18.5 cents a
litre to Auckland and Wellington from which we recieve no benefit, and to the
ectent that this subsidy discourages import distribution businesses from moving
to ports with less congested roads we are losing porential regional GDP on top
of the cash outflow of $260 per capita.
Since the inception of the fund in 1924 we have lost one-third of the money we
contributed compared with Auckland's loss of 15% and Wellington's gain of 15%.
Canterbury's cumulative loss of money from the fund now stands at $2b. The
Crown excise duty subsidies to Auckland began when Auckland reached that amount
in 2002. Weekday average speeds on major arterials are just 65.5% of the legal
speed limit compared with 66% in Auckland and 67% in Wellington (Transit Travel
Time Study 2004-2006). It seems we are being penalised because we didn't build
motorways to encourage sprawling ribbon development that leads to longer urban
freight transport distances.
In the light of these facts it is insulting the Michael Cullen has promised an
extra $250m "government" funding for Canterbury roads over the next ten years,
on the condition that E-Can match it with revenues from a 4 c/l regional fuel
tax. The 18 c/l subsidy would provide all that money plus enough for E-Can's
most expensive rail option.
So...man the barricades and demand that the Crown either put that 18 cents
excise duty into our pockets or into OUR regional land transport program.
I read your letter in the paper recently Kevyn (about road user charges and
roading investment allocation). I think the information you have is more
worthy of an article - and The Press accepts articles on current topics.
In addition, there are other motor-related publications that might accept
articles on this subject.
Thanks for the information.
Tim Kerr