"Adrian Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "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. >
O, but they do, if you are the producer, wholesaler and retailer for a product you can do what you like with the price. Esso, Shell etc are all producers, they also buy/sell it on the spot market, refine it, distribute it and finally retail it. Its a bit like saying BW don't control Mooring costs when they only charge market rate for them, they set the market rate. -- Brian from Sunny Suffolk
