Fight back on fuel

We've heard it all before.

It's winter in the USA.

It's Summer in the USA.

It's the price of fuel in Singapore.

It might be that Haley's Comet was seen in the sky several years ago or, even more likely, it is on a parity with the price of tea in China.

When will the petrol companies stop trying to treat the general public like idiots and tell the truth?

They just want to rip us off.

Several years ago when the Australian dollar was around $US0.42, we were told that this influenced the price of oil and that was why the price of fuel went up to around $1 per litre.

Now it is around $US0.81 and we are paying anywhere between $1.05 (if the ACCC threatens to out them) to $1.43, because they want to rip us off going into a long weekend.

What's even better is that diesel is a by-product and cheaper to make and yet the price stays up around $1.32.

On the Peninsula, where there are two Shell service stations, they think that they are doing us a favour by offering four cent a litre discount with a Coles docket.

Perhaps that is why their fuel is more expensive in the first place (Call me cynical).

Isn't it about time we started fighting back?

Isn't it time that we made them to want our business?

I'd be prepared to start with Shell.

Why don't we all stop buying from Shell?

No fuel, no chocolates, no drinks.

When all of a sudden they are not getting any income, maybe, just maybe, they might lower their prices to get our patronage back.

Why aren't we driving the prices instead of the fuel company's price fixing like they do.

That's illegal isn't it?

I guess if we call it price matching that is not illegal.

Brad Page Umina