Skinz
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Registered: 15th May 03
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Hi All,
Seems like a good idea to be repeated....
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 per 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
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 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!!!
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.
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Edd
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Registered: 8th Nov 04
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it is chain mail but still a good idea
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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FLMAO how dumb is that piece of text shite 
Its the government and their exponential fuel duties that are cranking the prices up further than they should, not the fuel companies themselves. It does not help when a barrel now costs $US66, but to blame the large petro-companies is crap
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Skinz
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Registered: 15th May 03
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the government tax so much to try and stay in line with there enriovnmental duties
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
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the government tax so much because of the f-ing tories in the 1980s
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Gsi_Ire
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Republic of Ireland
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[Edited on 17-08-2005 by Gsi_Ire]
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Skinz
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Registered: 15th May 03
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dont think you understand what the email is saying gsi-ire
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Gsi_Ire
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Republic of Ireland
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sorry, edit my post, there was a very similar mail going around here in ireland about no one buying petrol for 2 days, i didnt read the whole of your mail and assumed it was the same one, soz 
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