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Topic Started: Mar 29 2010, 12:27 PM (84 Views)
Sean
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The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while,
the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and
the government will not do anything
as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.


See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it


We are hitting 114.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 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 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 90p 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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Im already doing my part then as I only use Shell for the Pulsar :lol:

In all seriousness, it's a great idea in principle. The problem is that nobody will do it. As soon as they've stopped reading this (which has been around for a while now), and go out for a drive to get petrol it will be forgotten.

There's a garage near me that I boycott on the principle of it's prices as it's about 6p more than anywhere else. And I tell others not to go there aswell. But it's always a busy garage, and I can't believe people still go in there! It's mental.

I believe for this to even stand a chance of working, a day would need to be set and a big hoo-haa made of it. Get as much media coverage as possible, with the date of protest having some big thing made of it. I dunno, but these posts have been around for a while with no effect whatsoever. Not having a pop at you, far from it, it's just a shame nothing ever happens from it. :(
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I'm with you guys I will not buy bp anymore there you go lol
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