"Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >johncooksey wrote: >> >> For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the >> two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP. >> > >100% total barmy spam. What a plon*er. >1. Who do you think supplies the supermarkets? ASDA's refinery? ROTFLMHO >2. If there is, say, a Texaco garage 5 miles from the ESSO >storage/refinery, guess where the Texaco garage gets its petrol from? The >Texaco storage 100 miles away - think again. The refineries have been able >to blend to any recipe for (to my knowledge) 30+ years - I used to live near >a Shell refinery - and the range of petrol tankers going to and from the >refinery was all the types one could think of.
It's actually worse than that. The petrol price is mostly derived from the world price for oil (now at record levels approaching $90/barrel) and tax (which in UK is by far the most significant part). The oil companies control neither of these. The price he is suggesting of 69p/litre is less than the current amount of tax. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
