Stick it up their butts day - Sept 5

[bugjuice]

just been told this has made the radio too.. so that's a lot of cars that would have been told.. still don't think it'll make much difference, but be interesting to see how many don't go to the pumps

[Virago]

So, explain the 90 to 138% increase in NZ oil company profits recently.

The one day thing is bollocks, a rotating boycott of each company is the answer.

The idea of boycotting fuel companies has been circulating for a while, and is a load of Bucking Follocks too.

The first casualties of a boycott would be the front-line service station staff ie. job losses.

The next casualties will be the independant station operators (remember only about half of the service stations are owned by the fuel companies). These independants are struggling now to make a living - and you want them to drop their prices???????? A boycott would be the final nail in the coffin for these guys.

The suggestion of a one-day boycott of all fuel purchases is pathetic, and if anyone thinks it will actually work, they need to grow a brain! These silly chain-letters only suck in the gullible......

The only way any organised pressure can be placed on the fuel companies, is for everyone to purchase fuel from any company that "breaks ranks", and sells fuel a bit cheaper than the others. The resulting boost in sales would balance out the lower profit margin, and the other companies would be forced to fall into line.

But wait - isn't this what already happens?

[Big Dave]

Yada yada yada
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go to the servo (any one), then I'm going to fill up, and then I'm going to go for a ride.
You lot can rage against the machine pointlessly on my behalf? Cheers.

[sir.pratt]

So everyone will run around on the 4th Sptember and fill up their vehicles...

and again on the 6th if they have used all the gas up.

My thoughts exactly!

[Hitcher]

Yada yada yada
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go to the servo (any one), then I'm going to fill up, and then I'm going to go for a ride.
You lot can rage against the machine pointlessly on my behalf? Cheers.

Did the same thing today. Four times even! Fantastic.

[loosebruce]

and Hip Hop Tours, Prisoner abuse settlements, treaty settlements, ugly filters for Helen Clarke's TV interviews, speeding fines for her drivers..

ABout Helen Clark, anyone noticed the labour billboards and how touched up the picture of her is, her teeth are almost straight and sparkling white and so on, the T.V. tells a different story a much more gastly story and the T.V. sure as shit does not lie.

On petrol, fuck they got us by the balls really, not much to do but take to the pushbike and i worked hard to get to the shape i'm in now, and the pushbike would rob me of that, damn the bastards, damn them to hell.

[Pixie]

I quite like the rolling blockade day thing - prventing one of the fuel suppliers from ANY business on one day or other... except...

when it's NOT their turn they get proportionateyl MORE business - which would even out the low times.

I like the idea of simply blockading one of the petrol stations completely. Permanently... then looking for the next one if the fual prices don't drop...

I can see there would only be 2 or 3 go out of business before the rest started thinking twice.

The very sad (and logical) extension to that is, once all bar one are out of business - you have a monopoly whereupon they can charge what they damned well please...

Boycott one supplier on a rotating basis every week and favour the first supplier to reduce the price at their pumps,switching to the next one to reduce etc.
Enforced competion