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magicdragon
22-12-2007, 10:01
This was sent to me via email and I felt I should share this idea with everyone.

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.

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 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





Please feel free to share this with everyone you know.

pookie1968uk
22-12-2007, 17:15
i nevr get my petrol from BP or Esso anyway, far too expensive, so i will continue to buy from the supermarkets while they are the most competitive.

Meh
22-12-2007, 18:22
i nevr get my petrol from BP or Esso anyway, far too expensive, so i will continue to buy from the supermarkets while they are the most competitive.

Likewise - BP and Esso prices are ripoff anyway

Pinkbanana
22-12-2007, 18:57
i nevr get my petrol from BP or Esso anyway, far too expensive, so i will continue to buy from the supermarkets while they are the most competitive.

Likewise - BP and Esso prices are ripoff anyway

Same as me, I tend to fill up at a very well known supermarket, which currently has adverts on TV featuring 5 talentless people who are in to girl power - care to guess? lol

Jessie Wallace
22-12-2007, 20:31
I'm a supermarket girl too, get's you points of your club cards! lol

Chris_2k11
22-12-2007, 20:36
Same as me, I tend to fill up at a very well known supermarket, which currently has adverts on TV featuring 5 talentless people who are in to girl power - care to guess? lolthey are hardly 'talentless'. bit of an overstatement (well ok maybe victoria haha)

Abigail
22-12-2007, 22:25
PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

Thing is, the government slap around 70P on each litre of fuel.

I don't buy my fuel from BP or ESSO. I bought some petrol a few weeks ago and the price for unleaded was 106p and for diesel it was 109. Its ridiculous the price that fuel costs these days but rival companies aren't likely to reduce their prices much. Oil is running out and becoming more expensive per barrel. Fuel companies just capitalize on the market because most drivers can't do without their car. It has a knock on effect on everything. I have already seen the price of food in Tesco go up since the fuel price increase.

I think the only way fuel prices are going to come down significantly is if the Government stop taxing automobile users so much per litre.

I remember the days when petrol was 86p a litre. How times have changed.

Pinkbanana
23-12-2007, 11:15
Same as me, I tend to fill up at a very well known supermarket, which currently has adverts on TV featuring 5 talentless people who are in to girl power - care to guess? lolthey are hardly 'talentless'. bit of an overstatement (well ok maybe victoria haha)

Well thats MY personal opinion, which Im entitled to, you are entitled to yours!

Anyway back on topic - the government, with the huge tax their slap on petrol is responsible, for the high price of petrol in this country. Its a very unfair tax too, cause it affects everyone and everything - food prices etc...

pinkles14
23-12-2007, 21:56
I always use the supermarkets or shell they try to stay at the same price as the supermarkets