Join the boycott !

[Papaumau]

One of the important costs to pensioners these days is the cost of fuel as more than anybody else we use our cars to get places where many of us are unable to walk to.

I am sure that all of us remember the last fuel protest, where the people of Britain got off their backsides and supported a very important cause. Now that fuel is getting to be only for the rich I think that it is time for another boycott. This time it is going to be spread by the internet where more people can get on board than ever did before.

See this and give me your opinions:

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !

A campaign is under way on the net to have to cost of fuel reduced - by boycotting specific oil companies !

More than three million e-mails have been sent spreading the message to motorists with the aim of reaching three million in a fortnight.

In the message readers are reminded that fuel-prices are at their highest ever hitting £1.25 - on average - per litre across the country while the basic price of crude oil has dropped.

The message reads....."The only way that we are going to see the cost of roadfuel come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by NOT purchasing their petrol or diesel".

Drivers are urged..."For the rest of this year DO NOT purchase ANY fuel from the two bigest producers in Britain, namely...ESSO and BP and hope that they will attempt to get back the trade by doing some serious discounting". The e-mail suggests that we should only buy our fuel from the supermarkets and Jet while this protest is in force.

This direct action should also encourage the supermarkets and the smaller fuel retailers to cut their prices too.

This protest can be found on the Facebook and other social networking sites if any of you care to view it directly. Thousands of people already have .

The mystery author of this campign, Philip Hollsworth, is also urging every-one that gets this e-mail to pass it on to ten others in their address book.

YES, this is a bit of a pyramid scheme but it is one - in my honest opinion - that is worth doing.

Find the boycott here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php on my Facebook page and pop Philip Hollsworth into the search box.

Don't you agree ?

( See some other opinions here: http://www.wikio.com/themes/Philip+Hollsworth )
 

[John]

This is the doing of this Labour Government by continual Fuel Tax Hikes.

They have no plan except to keep screwing the public (rich or poor) with disproportionate taxation.

No thought, just Tax.

The cheapest supplied fuel in Europe - Taxed by Brown & his Clowns into the most expensive.

[cheddar-caveman]

This is all very well Pap, sounds a great idea but is unfortunately somewhat flawed.. There are only two main refiners of crude into petrol in the UK and they are Shell and BP and all the smaller "named" petrols ultimately come from them.

Sainsburys petrol, for example, comes almost 100% from BP after a deal they struck back in 2004

They've got you by the bal*s

[Papaumau]

John said:

This is the doing of this Labour Government by continual Fuel Tax Hikes.

And I say.....The fuel tax escalator was started by The Tories and was eventually stopped by New-Labour !

Yes, Darling HAS stared to raise fuel tax very steadily of recent times but he and the rest of his peers know that this is a definite vote-loser.

This is all very well Pap, sounds a great idea but is unfortunately somewhat flawed.. There are only two main refiners of crude into petrol in the UK and they are Shell and BP and all the smaller "named" petrols ultimately come from them.

Sainsburys petrol, for example, comes almost 100% from BP after a deal they struck back in 2004

They've got you by the bal*s

And of course you are right CC !

While the crude is refined by these big two and Shell in Britain it is bought wholesale by all of the others and sold retail by Esso and BP in their own forcourts.

If we are to target Esso and BP the best way to do it is via their own retail outlets. Be sure that if their forecourts start to look like ghost towns they will respond by starting to drop their retail AND their wholesale prices.

We HAVE TO do something and this is one way to do it without having to do without our vital fuel.

They target us with their marketing strategies, now it is our turn to target them.

[cheddar-caveman]

For some time now I have managed to get my top-up at Sainsbury when we do our weekly shop and hopefully will continu to do so.

Local petrol at the moment at 121.9!!

[Hugh]

I started my boycott of petrol stations some time ago. I either walk or catch the bus. The only time we use the car is for the weekly shop and a couple of times a year to the airport, less than 500 miles per year. £6 a gallon a bit rich for me. Tescoes quite often have a 5p a litre off petrol and thats when I top up.

[Elder Rebel]

Hugh and Pap are talking the same language but it seems to me that a boycott of petrol pumps (Shell or BP) misses the real point.  It is election time and T think we would get quicker results if 3 million pensioners said they would vote for the party who would get petrol back down to £4.00 per gallon.  Watch the scramble to make promises !!!

Actually it is not just petrol prices but everything once the next Government jacks VAT up to at least 20% and cuts grants to Town Halls so that Council Tax is up too.  What we  pensioners really need to do is put our collective votes together and demand a proper rise in Pensions.

While we continue to squabble over a few items and are divided we will continue to be treated as fools by all political parties.

So I think we need to band together and offer 3, million votes to the first main party who will promise to treat pensioners properly in this country and raise pensions to a European average.  Remember UK pensions are among the worst in Europe.

[Hugh]

There really is no chance of pensioners sticking to gether to make a difference. As you see on here labour supporters have the cheek to Blame M Thatcher for labours 13 years terrible rule so they still feel happy to continue to vote labour. Year on year labour have dropped this country in the s???. Wilson party openned the door for West indies to flood into this country to fill the job market. A lot of them were criminals who had the choice of prison or Britain. Conservatives will now get in again just to sort out labours mess, guess what? labour will get in again to start again   

[Papaumau]

Hugh said:

As you see on here labour supporters have the cheek to Blame M Thatcher for labours 13 years terrible rule so they still feel happy to continue to vote labour.

And I say that I don't think that any of the people here - including me - that blamed Thatcher for what SHE did are in any way condoning what New-Labour have done in the past twelve years or so. I just think that we really MUST remember what has gone before if we are not to be doomed to repeat it.....ALL of it !

Elder Rebel.....

I do see what you are trying to get at and I agree that we should get together and stand up for ALL of our rights as elderly citizens of Britain. That is what this and my own website and others are here for; we are trying to organise the silver-surfers to shout with one voice instead of shouting with a dozen and drowning each-other out.

I have already done my bit by writing to my local LABOUR, ( curiously ), representative and by reporting my letters and his replies here and on my own website so that we can all see JUST how effective we can be if we all do the same.

I cannot force anybody to do the right thing but I can certainly point out what I believe that "right" thing is. After that it is all up to the rest of you !

[shonnalee]

 ::)HI I'm new to this and having done ALL THE RIGHT THINGS I am a poor pesioner, literally, I get state pension and private pension paid into for 15 years due to which leaves me one of the poorest pensioners as I get 131 pounds per week, one pound over being able to claim P/Credit therefore have to pay dental etc. My sister who has Never worked gets all paid and has 150 pounds a week to survive off, totally unfair. The system stinks. I want to know where your site is so I can join in please. Thanks Shonna.

[Papaumau]

Hi again Shonnalee....

That is one of the great injustices in Britain at the moment.

Since our Maggie, ( Thatcher ), disconnected the state pension ratio to average earnings the state pension has been getting eroded year on year so that now we are the poorest pensioners in modern Europe. FACT !

Gordon Brown has promised to make this pension ratio re-connected to average earnings but he says that we are going to have to wait FIVE YEARS before this happens. He also says nothing about any of the money that has been stolen from us being backdated.

Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats has promised that as soon as the Lib Dems get into power, ( even in a hung parliament ), they would push for the state pension re-connection to average earnings to be made right away.

If you would like to visit my site all you have to do is left mouse-click on the banner at the bottom of my signature in any of my postings.

We would all be happy to welcome you over there, even our own Hells Grannie.