Petrol prices

[h.bradshaw]

We are hitting £129.9a litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 per litre. So 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 - not sellers control the market place. 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) i.e. 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 all of you send itto 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 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
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[gloriab]

Texaco isn't part of their 'group' is it ???

[LOVEGSD]

Sounds like a good plan, petrol prices are a joke!

[pamella]

we already do this.it's worth a try

[Jude]

There was an interesting article in the paper over the weekend about fuel prices and how in fact the proportion of the average weekly income spent on fuel is now smaller than it was in the 60s when petrol was 25p a gallon! Will try and find a link to it.

[Beki]

the tax rate on fuel is over 150%!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nash]

Wow, gas is really expensive there! We pay $2.70 a gallon here and even then many people complain!

[sami]

Just came back from Greece recently and petrol there is over 1.70 euros!!!

Tracy

[Stuart]

Hillary, if I was to send this email to my friends up here, they would laugh at me,..our fuel up here is already £1.46 for Diesol and £1.44 for Petrol.

As far as we are concerned £1.29 would be good

[Triksta]

Im self employed and my petrol bill has gone from around £10 per day to £20 per day just to work

Its criminal the way the government tax it