Petrol Prices

[Gavin]

I recieved this email and I agree that it could be a good idea, any followers here want to email it on ?

Subject: petrol email

Please read this......................

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.

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 marketplace 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 whimp 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!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! 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. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

[alan dixon]

been there done that

[Gromit]

Sounds plausable, so i`ve done me 10 E-mails.

Got to be worth a go.

[Crash Override]

I think it's unfair on Esso and BP......

Do the same to Shell too, a lot of you westy owners buy their optimax.

[potster]

Unfortunately this won't work. Fuel companies only get just over 30P a litre so for them to cut 25p of that is not going to happn. What it would do if it worked would see your local Esso/BP garage forced to close (if you could have that much of an impact) most fuel stations are francise owned.

Then supermarket fuel stations would spring up even more and force us to fill our tanks with nasty fuels

[Blatman]

It's a spam e-mail dressed up as an actual cause. It won't ever work, so don't waste your time...

[Matt Lucas]

And Aussies b***h 'cos we pay $1.20/litre.........  I certainly noticed the difference when I visited the oldies last month back in Blighty!

At least your tax rate is better than mine

[BLOGGY S7]

The only down side to it is, that where do you think Asda and Tesco get there fuel from? No doubt they will buy it from Esso or BP, so therefore they won't notice any difference.