check it out:
http://www.pipelinecard.org/default.html

details here:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=1149364#post1149364

Great links. Ive just registered. Sounds very good and i cant see a scam anywhere. Nothing to lose imho.

The guy who is setting this up has a rather unfortunate name - Scammel!!

[Edited on 25/11/05 by DarrenW]

An interesting idea but fundamentally flawed in my opinion! This is basically just a bunker site deal like we have at work. We spend around £700K on fuel and have a small discount from a BP but only from the bunker sites. The bunker sites are more expensive than the standard BP sites and even more expensive than the local supermarkets.

The problem is that we are already a big buying group, 'vehicle users', holding a card will not change that.

As the tax burden on fuel (including income tax, fuel duty, and vat) is more than 80% of the cost of the fuel the discounts that the oil company can offer are very small and a retailer won't be able to offer any.

To get cheaper fuel lobby government to reduce the tax burden. However, the mismanagement of the economy by the present and prior government has left us relying on that tax to pay for education, healthcare, immigration, and fat salaries/backhanders...

just signed up too.
It an interesting venture.

I've signed up too.
I am hoping that the petrol company in question is not BP or Esso (ideally Shell who I use at present) because it has to be worth something to the likes of Shell to get a higher market share through this sort of scheme. I use Shell when I can but if I had a discount card then I'd use them every time. I stay clear of supermarket fuel since I am convinced it is of lower quality and therefore I don't think it good value.

There was an email doing the rounds a while back encouraging people to boycot BT and Esso and use the smaller providers in an effort to force the hand of BP and Esso to reduce prices. Obviously that scheme would have caused the smaller companies to run dry quite quickly but the Pipeline scheme if arranged properly with the likes of Shell would give them forewarning of the potential increase in sales and allow demand and supply to be kept closely aligned. Perhaps even arrange it so that each customer only gets a discount on (a different) one or two days of the week to smooth out demand fluctuations.

Cheers,
Craig.

[Edited on 25/11/2005 by craig1410]

but the irish are boycotting shell because they built a pipeline through land that they didnt own without permission .....



hmmmm