Tesco they do know what retailing is all about...
Alastair Darlings (30th October) call for Shell and the other oil majors to reduce the pump price of petrol reveals an ignorance of how the oil business really works. There is little modern case for Shell, BP or the rest of the oil companies to be involved in petrol retailing at all. There are no vertically integrated benefits any more – every internal transaction (from wellhead to pump) is done at a market value related transfer price. So Shells petrol station business in the UK receives its product at an open-market determined price exactly the same price basis as an independent (like Tesco) would pay to a refiner or trader. That price is precisely linked to Crude Oil prices. The resultant pump price (before duty and tax) is determined by this acquisition cost and influenced on the margin by competition in the local trading area.
None of the oil companies are much cop as marketers and in recent times their once dominant position has been eroded by the supermarket chains. There is little money for Shell and BP in the oil marketing business and lots of hassle. It wont be long before they get out of it and leave it to people, like Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury, who know what they are doing and who customers have shown they trust more.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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