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Postby darrenbiggs » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:58 pm

Who knows how successful this will be in the long term but I just registered with www.pipelinecard.org

The idea is to create a petrol loyalty card that is intended to give (they hope) between a 5 to 10p / litre discount.

Have a read and see what you think - it's totally FREE. It's been in Evo, the FT and on ITV so the publicity is there and they've got 150,000 subscribers so far.
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Postby simontaylor » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:12 pm

5p a litre discount YES PLEASE, that is like a free gallon every time I fill up.
Lets hope they go with Shell, then we can use the Optimax at a cheap price too.

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Postby David Gentleman » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:35 am

Would it work? I was thinking about this...

Imagine it takes off and one petrol company offers 5p off a gallon (and remember most of this is tax, not the cost of the fuel). All the other fuel companies would have to follow suit just to match it to still be competative, so it wouldnt matter what petrol company you used....

BUT, then, as in theory the governments income from petrol would be down roughly 5%, would they not inflate tax to compensate?....they can't afford a drop like that, and its not like lowering the price of fuel will make consumers buy more.....
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Postby darrenbiggs » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:54 am

Well Safeways used to offer either 2, 5 or 10p a litre discounts depending on how much food you'd bought in the supermarket. (10p was about £100 I seem to remember) so it is feasible.

The government are on to a winner with petrol and oil companies anyway and hence a slight % drop from a single supplier to a limited audience is unlikely to make an appreciable difference to them. (but you are right in many ways as about 20% of the governments overall income comes from motorists)

I think that's why they are saying that the scheme would probably be capped at a finite number of users. Who knows how if it will work in the long run, lets face it many good ideas fall over at the first hurdle but whilst it's free I figure why not give it a go...........
I'm just here for the gasoline.
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Postby simontaylor » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:00 am

Someone should bring out a similar scheme for booze, now that would be popular. :P :P :P :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Postby darrenbiggs » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:11 am

simontaylor wrote:Someone should bring out a similar scheme for booze, now that would be popular. :P :P :P :roll: :roll: :roll:


With free AA membership ........ and I'm not referring to the Automobile Association.
I'm just here for the gasoline.
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Postby A610GA » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:49 am

simontaylor wrote:Someone should bring out a similar scheme for booze, now that would be popular. :P :P :P :roll: :roll: :roll:


They have but it involves a day trip to Calais. 8)
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