Petrol prices time to take action

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Just received this email, sounds like a good idea - after all, what other options have we got, other than pay through the nose in silence.... like we always do !!! Anyhow, if you think this may help, email it around to everyone.

We are hitting 98p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be
faced with paying £1 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain
day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just
laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join in!

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us
to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action
to teach them that BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the
price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.
The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit
someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that
WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two
biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.

If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce
their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to
follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of
Esso and BP petrol buyers. It's really simple to do!!

Now, don't wimp out on me at this point... Keep reading and I'll
explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to
at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... And those 300 send it to at least ten
more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... And so on, by the time the message reaches the
sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION
consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten
friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes
one level further, you guessed it... ..

THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!


Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.
(And not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends
this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION
people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! Acting
together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass
this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. I.e. Boycott BP
and Esso

let the boycotts commence :D
 
theres really not much the oil companys can do, the problem is the amount the government stick on top.
 
I've been boycotting Esso and BP all my life.

Just because we only have Shell and Total available on the Island :p
 
This is just completely retarded, why dont you go away and check the components of the price of a litre of fuel.
 
This is just completely retarded, why dont you go away and check the components of the price of a litre of fuel.

Well said,

About 15p is Vat on duty. They're taxing us for paying tax.

Also remember when the government say the price of crude is going up, well so is the amount of VAT they're getting from petrol sales, plus they get more for the oil britain produces.
 
Also, why does half of this email insist on trying to teach me my 10 times table? Shows the type of people this is aimed at.
 
Did you hear about the one where a guy has a Vauxhall Nova which was Stage 2 McDonaldsdrivethru tuned?

Turns out he stole the spec list out of an archived Rover forum thread.

NOW NOW
 
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