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But, if fuel purchase was just postponed, how will it affect total sales?

Wizzer wrote:

> Don't buy Petrol on April 30, 1999 ...?
>
> It's time we did something about the price of Petrol in Australia!
>
> We are all sick and tired of high prices - when there are literally millions
> of gallons in storage.  Know what we recently found out?
>
> The so-called oil cartel has decided to slow Australian production by some 2
> million barrels per day to drive up the price.  If there was just ONE day
> when nobody purchased petrol, the price you pay will drop dramatically.
>
> We've therefore decided to see how many Australians we can encourage to NOT
> BUY PETROL on one specific day!
>
> Let's have a PETROL OUT!
> Do not buy any petrol on APRIL 30, 1999.  Buy on the Thursday before, or
> Saturday after.  Do NOT buy any petrol on FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1999.
>
> Want to help?
> Send this message to everyone you know. Ask them to do the same. Talk to
> your friends.
>
> You - personally - CAN make a difference to the price you pay for your
> petrol.

Can't see what the problem is. Petrol here is some of the cheapest in the
developed world; second only after USA, i believe. If you want expensive fuel
check out Europe, particularly the northern countries. Petrol is typically
around 1.80-2.10AUD per litre!

Anyway, it's not really the oil companies that are raking it in from petrol
sales. Petrol does not make up the majority of their production and due to other
pressures their margins are already pretty thin. Most of the end price is taken
in tax and duty by the beloved Government. If you want to protest to someone how
about your state/federal politicians.

Wizzer wrote:

> Don't buy Petrol on April 30, 1999 ...?
>
> It's time we did something about the price of Petrol in Australia!
>
> We are all sick and tired of high prices - when there are literally millions
> of gallons in storage.  Know what we recently found out?
>
> The so-called oil cartel has decided to slow Australian production by some 2
> million barrels per day to drive up the price.  If there was just ONE day
> when nobody purchased petrol, the price you pay will drop dramatically.
>
> We've therefore decided to see how many Australians we can encourage to NOT
> BUY PETROL on one specific day!
>
> Let's have a PETROL OUT!
> Do not buy any petrol on APRIL 30, 1999.  Buy on the Thursday before, or
> Saturday after.  Do NOT buy any petrol on FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1999.
>
> Want to help?
> Send this message to everyone you know. Ask them to do the same. Talk to
> your friends.
>
> You - personally - CAN make a difference to the price you pay for your
> petrol.

Paul Kind wrote:

> Can't see what the problem is. Petrol here is some of the cheapest in the
> developed world; second only after USA, i believe. If you want expensive fuel
> check out Europe, particularly the northern countries. Petrol is typically
> around 1.80-2.10AUD per litre!

They also pay a lot less tax in many of those Eurpean countries!

The content of this posting is one of the older "net-lore" themes.  (Net
lore being Internet folk lore).

These articles can be dispelled as a myth, but continue circulation based
upon their angle of potential conspiracy against the average man in the
street.

Other more memorable documents include the one about the cookie recipe,
sending post cards to the kid with cancer, violent crimes/rapes/murders that
are alledged to be occurring in a major US town, confirmed by the police,
yet not reported by the media.  Beyond that, you get into the Myth
emails....sending messages to as many friends as possible to get a free copy
of Win 98 from Bill Gates, trip to Disney Land, etc.

For further research, set your search engine to mining.com,
www.kumite/myths,  urban-legends.com,  etc.

Basically, they are not worth serious debate, as you will see the same (or
similar) messages appear again and again over your web life.


Roger Browne



Wizzer <chris@acay.com.au> wrote in message
news:RxZQ2.15617$_H5.954533@newscene.newscene.com...
>
> Don't buy Petrol on April 30, 1999 ...?
>
> It's time we did something about the price of Petrol in Australia!
>
> We are all sick and tired of high prices - when there are literally
millions
> of gallons in storage.  Know what we recently found out?
>
> The so-called oil cartel has decided to slow Australian production by some
2
> million barrels per day to drive up the price.  If there was just ONE day
> when nobody purchased petrol, the price you pay will drop dramatically.
>
> We've therefore decided to see how many Australians we can encourage to
NOT
> BUY PETROL on one specific day!
>
> Let's have a PETROL OUT!
> Do not buy any petrol on APRIL 30, 1999.  Buy on the Thursday before, or
> Saturday after.  Do NOT buy any petrol on FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1999.
>
> Want to help?
> Send this message to everyone you know. Ask them to do the same. Talk to
> your friends.
>
> You - personally - CAN make a difference to the price you pay for your
> petrol.
>
>
>

Wizzer schreef:

> Don't buy Petrol on April 30, 1999 ...?
>
> It's time we did something about the price of Petrol in Australia!
>
> We are all sick and tired of high prices - when there are literally millions
> of gallons in storage.  Know what we recently found out?
>
> The so-called oil cartel has decided to slow Australian production by some 2
> million barrels per day to drive up the price.  If there was just ONE day
> when nobody purchased petrol, the price you pay will drop dramatically.
>
> We've therefore decided to see how many Australians we can encourage to NOT
> BUY PETROL on one specific day!
>
> Let's have a PETROL OUT!
> Do not buy any petrol on APRIL 30, 1999.  Buy on the Thursday before, or
> Saturday after.  Do NOT buy any petrol on FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1999.
>
> Want to help?
> Send this message to everyone you know. Ask them to do the same. Talk to
> your friends.
>
> You - personally - CAN make a difference to the price you pay for your
> petrol.

    In the Netherlands where I live petrol costs about A$ 1.65.
About 70 % of this price is tax.
    The price of crude oil does only affect the price of fuel a few cents a
year.
But our government tries to encourage (mostly)car users to make use of the
public transportation system because our roads are extremely overcrowded.
They raise the prices sometimes up to 10 to 20 cents a time.
    I wonder if your government is pulling off something  to make you pay more
tax.

Elwin B