sunshine beast
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just recived this email and thought it was quite interesting
The Price of Petrol
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 litre. 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 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!!! 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. Boycott BP and Esso.
[Edited on 24-10-2007 by sunshine beast]
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fir3vip3r
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no piss off
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Hamish
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WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT
where there is demand there will always be a supply.
These emails really nark me off. Do you honestly think they will do anything, how many people do you think the emails reach?
If you cant afford to drive a car dont have one in the first place
 RANT OVER
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Colin
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YMCA
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Dave A
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nah, they dont sell petrol colin.
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sand-eel
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i heard holy water is the same as 120ron petrol!!!
supply is actually below demand so prices will never go down that much!!!
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breezy-1.4
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fuck boycotting. Im sure youll have fun on the bus with homeless people vomitting and sitting in their own urine while im in my marginally more expensive to run car.
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Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
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i dont use bp or esso anyway 
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sam-smith
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quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
i dont use bp or esso anyway
neither do i sainsburtys or tescos ftw
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Revolver
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Registered: 25th Apr 07
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Aye. Sainsburys FTW!
96.9 unleaded or 99.9 super..
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Ben_LS
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quote:
Originally posted by breezy-1.4
fuck boycotting. Im sure youll have fun on the bus with homeless people vomitting and sitting in their own urine while im in my marginally more expensive to run car.
yeh but the whole point is to just not use those two...you can use any other petrol...but not using those means they would have to drop prices...therefore so would the other companies...i think it could work if it reached enough people..
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Mike
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I don't use em anyway, so I'm in
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corsaandy
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sainsburys and asda get their fuel from bp tescos probably do aswell so you need to stop buying fuel from them aswell!
[Edited on 24-10-2007 by corsaandy]
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Steve
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do people really think this info is new?
its been circling for years
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