Lets stop USING BP and Shell Petrol Stations?

Question

With petrol prices now going over the pound a litre, and NO sign of any protest, why dont we are motorists stop using the 2 biggest suppliers of fuel - Shell and BP. The one way of trying to get companies to reduce prices to to stop using these companies and just use the Supermarket, before long Shell and BP will start to lose money, and then it will hit there profits which in the long term will mean a fall in prices. Everyone I know have already started using BP and Shell and in the area I live other people are now only using Supermarkets, if we all did it through out the UK, how long would it be, before BP and Shell started seeing a hole in there profits.

STOP USING BP
STOP USING SHELL

FILL UP AT SUPERMARKETS ONLY

Lets make a stand together

My local Tesco is 99.9p my local BP is 6p dearer yet people still use BP why when the supermarket is 6p cheaper. If we all used supermarkets, the price at the forcourt would have to come down other wise these forcourts would end up going out of business. Every where I drive ( my job means I drive a lot) BP AND Shell are between 4p and 6p dearer than supermarkets.

My local Tesco is 99.9p my local BP is 6p dearer yet people still use BP why when the supermarket is 6p cheaper. If we all used supermarkets, the price at the forcourt would have to come down other wise these forcourts would end up going out of business. Every where I drive ( my job means I drive a lot) BP AND Shell are between 4p and 6p dearer than supermarkets.

Answer 1

I'll go with that.
Hey Dave, why stop there we could do other things, lets form an alliance against rip off Britain.
Post in Currents Events when you need backing, I'll be the first to join.

Answer 2

I think it's skipped you that most petrol stations retrieve their supplies from BP and shell anyway. You'll find that BP and shell have a slightly different set of additives for their fuel. The reason that supermarket fuel is cheaper is down to two things:

1) It's inferior, not to a dangerous level, but remember it was tesco's pumps that chewed up everyones car last year with a dodgy batch of fuel.

2) Supermarkets offset the running costs into the stores, allows them to drop the price and not affect profit.

I'm afraid the problem is deeper rooted than that. And to be honest, BP and shel aren't the criminals, you do know that over 70% of the price of fuel is tax paid to the government? Oil companies see less than 30% of the forecourt price. It's our goverment thats crippling the fuel prices, not the oil companies.

Look at the USA, their fuel is now at the heady price of 4 dollers per gallon, less than half ours, and difference is taxation, not the oil companies.

Answer 3

I live not many miles from the Fawley oil refinery. It is owned and run by Shell.

Fawley supplies (apart from Shell) all the Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda, B.W.O.C., Morrisons and independent fuel stations within a 150 mile radius. This also includes road hauliers, small airports, farms and industrial units.

Not buying Shell or BP is pointless, since they own 99% of the U.K. oil refineries. WHEREVER you buy your fuel from, you are putting money into the pockets of Shell or BP.

Your suggestion is as irrelevant now, as it was 5 or 6 years ago when it first started circulating on the internet.

(By the way, my local Sainsbury's is charging £1.04 per litre for petrol. My local Shell is charging 99.8p per litre.)

Answer 4

THE motive YOUR now not SUPPOSED to use A mobile phone IN a petroleum/fuel STATION IS NOTHING TO DO WITH AN EXPLOSION AS they have got YOU think. THE rationale BEING IS THAT it may affect THE COUNTERS ON the amount OF gas you purchase AND THE PETROL STATION may LOSE OUT so that you LOT THAT suppose YOUR GONNA cause A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION GET A lifestyles adequate. IM TEXTING THIS FROM MY cell cell IN A BP PETROL STATION IN LONDON AND MY automobile IS ON fire !!!

Answer 5

the reason YOUR no longer meant to apply A cellular telephone IN a petroleum/gasoline STATION IS no longer something TO DO WITH AN EXPLOSION AS they have you ever trust. the reason being IS THAT it may impression THE COUNTERS on the quantity OF gasoline you purchase AND THE PETROL STATION might want to LOSE OUT so that you LOT THAT imagine YOUR GONNA reason A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION GET A existence ok. IM TEXTING THIS FROM MY cellular telephone IN A BP PETROL STATION IN LONDON AND MY motor vehicle IS ON hearth !!!

Answer 6

Not buying certain brands of fuel does nothing. The only way to see an affect is to simply reduce driving. Why are we as a culture so addicted to driving? I have commited to myself to simply reduce my fuel purchase buy one gallon per week. If everyone did that we would see an effect. However we will never see it because our society will not do anything that will better other people without being forced to do so by the government.

Answer 7

Really clever idea lets give more money to monster known as Tesco, soon enough you wont even have a choice where to buy fuel or your shopping.

2/3 of Fuel price is TAX, it is the govt you should be aiming your campaign at.

Not one of the more environmentally friendly ( i say with baited breathe) fuel companies. Check out Esso or Texaco

Answer 8

I don't think you would get very far as most of the Petrol comes from refineries that are usually owned by the big companies, the only difference is the label you see at the pump, so if they wanted they could just stop supplying the super markets etc, Oh and 80% goes to govenment in taxes, It is the govenment who is ripping us off as usual

Answer 9

I'm with you on this one as well.. All fuels must comply with a British standard in the Uk (or the equivalent EU standard)

Steven, don't give us your Cr*p about supermarket fuel, it's not that long ago in my mind that uk Vauxhauls had problems because Shell mucked up their additives and caused valve failures to many owners cars in the UK..

Answer 10

I live in a village and BP is the only provider within 5 miles. So, no I won't