We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 a litre.

Campaigners for lower prices have 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 aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace 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.

Buy your petrol at:
Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. - i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

But the price of petrol has more to do with high taxes and high crude oil prices on the exchanges. Yes, the big oil companies make huge profits, but it would be far easier if the tax on fuel was cut and/or the sources of our resources were made more stable.

Alternatively we could start using non-fossil fuels as resources... there's an idea! No wait, it's too good an idea to be used in this mad age of ours.

I just dont understand the logic behind these pointless one day protests. All this does is to enduce a buying frenzy beforehand and annoy the crap out of normal road users without hurting the petrol companies or the govenment.

The idea suggested above of a long-term boycott of the two main comapnies (Esso and BP) is much more sensible as this will eat into the quarterly profits of said companies and for the share-holders to demand action leading to the companies approaching the govt and trying to get prices reduced; all without annoying normal road users that these one day protests claim to be helping.

I would ask if anyone had seen the situation at Morrisons yesterday with vehicles lined up all around the carpark and back out onto the road waiting to get to the fuel pumps but it was a little hard to miss.

This is what annoys me because like most people in the country; I want to have reasonably priced fuel and would like to see the govt forced to cut back on the 85% tax that they apply to fuel because I think that 85% tax is beyond a joke.

I would also like to think that the nation is smart enough and logical enough to realise that hitting the big petrol companies in the pocket over a period of time is the way to force change and not by causing delays for the very people that the protesters claim to be trying to help but unfortunatly the organisers of these types of protests dont seem to understand that the most effective strategy against the companies and the govt is a financial one and not a logistical one like the ones that they are planning for today.

You can still get LPG at 30 pence a litre chaps.

My fuel costs have halved since i started using it, plus its good for the enviornment and the UK is self sufficent in LPG B)