Taking Action on Petrol Prices?

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I've just received this mail at work and thought i'd share with you. Apologies if either this or something of its kind has already been posted, I searched but couldnt find anything.

SEE what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 106.9 p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 .10 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.
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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
a ggressive 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 i t 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
 
A) it's a repost
b) it wont work
And
C) (and this is by far the biggest problem) the companies make very little profit. It's all tax.
 
That's completely & utterly pointless, its not the oil company that needs sorting it the government fuel taxation thats the problem, around 70% is tax so petrol must be around 30p a litre otherwise
 
I've always though petrol stations should print the pre tax and duty price of the fuel on the receipt. Maybe we should start lobbying the fuel companies for this.
 
Like I said in the last thread, that was barely two weeks ago, with exactly the same OP.

69p per litre? Good luck with that.

I'm sure you'll see great success.
 
Like I said in the last thread, that was barely two weeks ago, with exactly the same OP.

Really?

Edit* oh same email, differnt guy



Thought I made it clear last time


The days of $20 a barrel for Crude have gone, you will NEVER see it again.
 
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Its all tax, only way to bring tax down is direct action against the government.

You all like keeping lazy people in council houses and fags so that aint going to happen any time soon.
 
Oil nowadays is like stocks , forgive my ignorance on economics but the price level is absolutely artificial. That means we are screwed by some corrupted and greedy agencies.

demand and supply dont affect prices
 
lmao
If it goes one level further, you guessed it... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Why would 300,000,000 people care about the price of petrol in the UK, considering that UK pop is around 60,000,000 and a lot of people don't have the internet. So we're spamming about 260,000,000 people for no reason :D
 
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