petrol prices

[tilly]

Hi got the below idea from an email and thought I would spread the word. I hope it is OK and please send it on to anyone you know. It might just work.

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 108.9p 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
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 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 andpass 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
makessense
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

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[CathyW]

fuel prices are just out of control now. we drive a small panda 750, and the increased petrol prices now mean we walk more (not bad) but only use the car for important things, not just cause its there, just cant afford it.
and food prices have shot up partly to blame because of the fuel prices rising.
ill post this on to aall my car driving friends.