I got this, which looks like a blatant attempt a chain mail, but thought I'd share anyway. This also absolves me of the hassle of having to think of 10 people to forward it on to.

> >Subject: Petrol
> >
> >See what you think and pass it on if you agree.
> >
> >We are hitting 95p a litre or more in some areas now, soon we will be
> >faced with paying £1 a ltr.
> >
> >Philip Hollsworth offered this very 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
> >aggresive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place 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 petrol 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.
> >
> >POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!

/me giggles at Sifty's less-than-10 address book. hee hee.

What's an address book?

Viral marketing by Shell / Tesco / Sainsburys ?????

Supply and demand baby, supply and demand.

Petrol will be over a £/ltr before the end of the year..

/me strokes company fuel card ..

It's $2.50 a gallon here atm. It changes daily though, was close to $3 when I arrived and dropped to $2.40 the other day. Madness I tells ya

\o/

But the flipside of the coin is that you have to sit in jail with a truncheon (sorry.. nightstick) up your rectum, for three days, until they decide how to punish you for travelling over 55. Actually I'm probably exaggerating... maybe more like 2 days.

Sift you make me horny with your talk

Regular roads are 55 Sift but interstates aka motorways are 70 and with no speed cameras, atleast around here I've found people drive much faster than in the UK

That's because they're not driving on the wrong side of the road!

lots of the motorway petrol places are already £1 a litre or as near as damn it.

I saw a lot who had the price as 99.99p, because their big sign didnt have enough spaces before the decimal to put 100.00p!!

Simple things please simple minds!

Glad I still do it for you mate. Long time, no speakee


So the fuel is cheaper, they don't have speed cameras and the speed limit is the same? Where do I order a visa?

It all bollocks anyway mate, I have been following that gimp that was on Top Gear who said he had negotiated a contract with a unamed top fuel company to provide fuel at 5p a litre cheaper when showing a valid card. All you had to do was sign up and get the card and bang that was it. 2 years later nothing has come of it and I have started to receive emails with great deals on gps and other gadgets even though he told everyone at the start it was not going to happen.

Its all shit, the simple fact is it costs alot of money to farm this stuff so they can charge what they like because everyone needs it and not many people have the technology to get it.

Well lets not get started on the break down of where the money per ltr of fuel goes to shall we.

Pretty much everywhere ive been in the world the cost of fuel is cheaper than the UK. Also look at the trend on the cost of diesel, before diesel cars became a trendy viable option its cost was significantly lower than that of petrol. However now it is pretty much the same cost.

I also have to fill the car up every few days due to the place being so spread out so although the fuel is cheaper we have to use a shitload more to go anywhere or get anything done. Even the local shop is a 20 minute drive

And you forgot that every American car has at least a 60 litre engine

and does 1:3


that's what 10 miles per gallon?

thought you were allready refering to miles/gallon >_<