supra steveo Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 got this email off a mate today See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it We are hitting 95p 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 8 days!!! 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. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential or legally privileged and are intended solely for the use of the recipient to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or the person responsible for delivering it to them please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Do not take any action based on it, copy it, forward it or otherwise use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other person. To do so may be unlawful. Any opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily Croydon Primary Care Trust. Croydon Primary Care Trust is not responsible for any changes made to the message after it has been sent. If this e-mail is marked 'Personal' Croydon Primary Care Trust is not liable in any way for its contents. This e-mail has been checked for viruses, but recipients should undertake their own virus checking as Croydon Primary Care Trust will not accept any liability whatsoever. what do you rekon ? i dont have any play in this as i get 10 ltrs of V-power 100 ron for 6 euros a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Most of the cost of petrol is tax. I'd be interested to know how BP and Esso are going to reduce tax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartworm Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 3rd time this has been posted in the same amount of weeks, it wont happen, or work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flukey-lukey Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I reckon BP and SHELL are the same copmpany too I also reckon I would never fill my supra up anywhere but shell as I use v-power. I use the cheaper stuff in the daily car and don't buy from esso,bp or shell anyway. So actually I'm already doing this and prices haven't gone down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I posted this up a couple of weeks ago! Do a search for the title "Could be bollox"..... H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 3rd time this has been posted in the same amount of weeks, it wont happen, or work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 3rd time this has been posted in the same amount of weeks, it wont happen, or work ...and about the gazillionanth time it's ever been post on t'interweb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 3rd time this has been posted in the same amount of weeks, it wont happen, or work Somebody said that to the Wright Brothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartworm Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Somebody said that to the Wright Brothers They were only fighting Gravity, not the taxman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 They were only fighting Gravity, not the taxman Good point but isnt this aimed at the 1 or 2 big Petrochemical companies wallets and not the taxman's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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