penelope
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See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting £ 1.00 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying more than £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 i t 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.
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Cosmo
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Wont work. Repost. End of thread.
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Ian
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Will never happen, wouldn't alter price anyway. Edit - Delete IMO.
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deano87
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Reaching £1/litre? Surely an indication for the age of that spam shite?!
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Marc
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Maybe you need to have a pit stop 
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smack
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wont work , live with it
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dan_c4rsa
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why not firebomb to two biggest company's stations........
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marklaruk
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i havent seen this thread before...
...in the last week anyway
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Ben G
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i paid £1.03 for mine 2 days ago so i say to you....
F-O 
like i've always said, no one forces you to pay it...SO GET OVER IT 
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Jay
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Just cause it gets shown to us THREE HUNDRED MILLION TIMES, still doesn't mean the average Joe like the likes of my dad gets to hear about it. Wouldn't work, and the claims are silly.
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Steve X16XE
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I've just paid 101.9 for mine at the cheapest arround. It was a shell station that while everywhere was 105.9 including supermarkets, this shell was at 99.9.
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Sam
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http://forums.corsagsi.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2101
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Jodi_the_g
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quote:
Originally posted by penelope
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.
Of course its a sellers market thats the whole point of OPEC to control the prices of OIL.
And its not the petrol stations fault that fuel is so high its the tax on top. Petrol stations make very little why do you think they are all being knocked down and turned into flats.
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Robbo
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It hasnt been 69p since like 2000 
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Leighton
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why would the likes of shell reduce there price just because BP have when "shell" sould be getting all the trade, shell could increase there prices to make more money because everyone is buying from them.
but i think it will work 
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Jodi_the_g
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Plus you can not compair our fuel prices with alot of countrys. Piss me off when people say but Petrol is cheap in the US
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Jodi_the_g
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The octane rate is only 80 in the US
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DAZ1985
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quote:
Originally posted by dan_c4rsa
why not firebomb to two biggest company's stations........
Its the government that want fire bombing
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Cosmo
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TBH something needs to be done as its really expensive over here compared to other countries, the US for instance.
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DAZ1985
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Agreed !!!!
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All Torque
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Red diesel FTW!
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Jodi_the_g
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
TBH something needs to be done as its really expensive over here compared to other countries, the US for instance.
Yes but UK fuel is alot higher quility therefore its not fair to compair prices Oct 80 compaired to 92ish in the UK
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Cosmo
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I was joking, I saw your post about getting annoyed at it
TBH its the amount of tax that is put on our fuel that increases its cost by so much.
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Jodi_the_g
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I thought youmight be it just pissed me off as you can't compair the prices as total different product.
Japan pay more money for they fuel than us as do Holland but no one ever brings them up.
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Robbo
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Yeah but US prices are still far far cheaper than UK's, exch rates and RON differences aside!!!!
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