[senco-forum] Keeping costs down

Esso and BP might be the biggest companies, but Shell is not insignificant. 
My local Sainsbury is cheap, but no longer the cheapest in town. Its fuel
comes from BP. The problem with not buying fuel is one day you will run out
of fuel in your car.  The secret is for us all to use our cars less. Then
the fuel companies will have too much oil on their hands...

Colin

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Sorry if this comes through more than once. I seem to be
having email gremlins!

I know that like me there are many of us SEN specialists who
have to do a great deal of travelling as part of their job.
We don't get company cars, allowances or essential user
status. The message below is aimed at all those SEN
specialists who are being particularly hit hard at the
moment.

Mark

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it 

We are hitting 106.9 p a litre in some areas now, soon we
will be faced with paying £1.10 a ltr. 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, we need to take
a ggressive 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!! Though we do need to hold out until
prices reach the 70-80p level.

--
Mark Norwood
Assistant Headteacher
www.avssc.org

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