Petrol Prices

joejoem

IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN IRELAND DID NOT PURCHASE A
DROP OF PETROL FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES
WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES. AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE
ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION POUNDS WHICH AFFECTS
THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

THEREFORE JULY 14TH HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND
"DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF PETROL
THAT DAY. THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO
AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.

WAITING ON THIS GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES
THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED A FORTNIGHT AGO?

REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF PETROL GOING UP BUT AT THE
SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING COMPANIES
ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT
IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS, MEDICAL
SUPPLIES ETC.

WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY,
WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD.

FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE JULY 14TH A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"!!!!!

Please forward this to everyone you know!!! Latest Prices of Petrol is
?1.07 a Litre. Way too much!!

qz

AH BRILLIANT. THANKS FOR THAT POST, AND BY THE WAY, could you not just have posted your rant in small caps like a normal person?

joejoem

copy and paste son, copy and paste. I will pass your complaint on down the line

petes

I dont buy any petrol any day.

Nuttzz

doing the rounds again I see :rolleyes:

Shabadu

Er... Won't people still end up buying the same amount of petrol, only on the day before, or the day after? Who calculated this? A qualified economist, or some random moron with on his parent's computer who got sacked from the Shell in Phibsboro?

I'd like to see some actual fact, this smacks of sheer speculation to me.

If it has been calculated based on the amount of fuel Irish people purchase in one day, why is the total 'loss' to the 'entire industry' calculated at 4.6 billion pounds?

dudara

Check out the thread in the rip-off Ireland forum

seamus

Ah yes, you have to love email forwards that someone goes "Grr! I paid too much for my petrol! I know, I have an email I received ages ago. I'm going to change some bits of it to make it currently relevant, then send it to all my friends!".

joejoem wrote:

IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN IRELAND
......
NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION POUNDS WHICH AFFECTS
THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

Curious that. I would seriusly doubt that if everyone in Ireland didn't buy petrol for a day, there'd be an issue. Some petrol station clerks might be bored, and some sweaty monkey looking at stats on a screen might go "Hey, that's weird", but nothing else really.
Even assuming that each of our 1.5 millions vehicles required €20 of fuel in that one day the loss there is still only €30 million. Assuming that you could also calculate a loss of interest on that thirty million for the day, at say, 1%, then the total loss for that day is €30,300,000. Of course, the next day we'd all just put €30 million of fuel in our vehicles, resulting in a net loss of €606,000. Pittance.

Now, if everyone in the UK failed to buy petrol, perhaps there'd be worries. If everyone in the US failed to buy petrol, there'd be chaos.

pdunno

well said!!

Hobbes

Wow.. 4.6 Billion you say? That is exactly the same as America (which is the biggest user in the world).

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/nogas.asp

Cut and Paste? A bit of modifying beforehand I think.