Petrol Outrage
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Petrol Prices: See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 98p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 per 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, 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 8 days!!! Acting together we can make a difference If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
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, Sainsbury's, Morrison's Jet etc.
Boycott BP and Esso
Petrol Prices: See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 98p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 per 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, 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 8 days!!! Acting together we can make a difference If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
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, Sainsbury's, Morrison's Jet etc.
Boycott BP and Esso
Errm....how about getting the theiving b******s in Government to pay attention too? As we already know, a large percentage of the cost of a litre of fuel is made up of duty and then VAT on top of that too.
I'm not too concerned about oil company profits especially if they are using some of those profits for research and development into alternative fuel technology for when the oil finally runs out. What I do object to is a government that keeps taxing and taxing and spends little of the money on anything that benefits the majority of tax payers.
If I had no money or assets or no job or a home for me and my family, the welfare state is the 'safety net' that covers that; the very wealthy seem to get away with paying little or no taxes at all (fair play if you can afford the advisers who can keep you legal in respect of your obligations) and then, in the middle is my family and me along with millions of others who are neither rich nor poor. It's us that seem to be paying for or subsidising the other two extremes courtesy of the tax and spend Labour Government. It's the Government that are the real bad boys in this, the society they have created over the last 10 years is completely perverse!
I'm not too concerned about oil company profits especially if they are using some of those profits for research and development into alternative fuel technology for when the oil finally runs out. What I do object to is a government that keeps taxing and taxing and spends little of the money on anything that benefits the majority of tax payers.
If I had no money or assets or no job or a home for me and my family, the welfare state is the 'safety net' that covers that; the very wealthy seem to get away with paying little or no taxes at all (fair play if you can afford the advisers who can keep you legal in respect of your obligations) and then, in the middle is my family and me along with millions of others who are neither rich nor poor. It's us that seem to be paying for or subsidising the other two extremes courtesy of the tax and spend Labour Government. It's the Government that are the real bad boys in this, the society they have created over the last 10 years is completely perverse!
Very true! The big 4 supermarkets just put it out to tender. I have seen Esso, BP & Texaco lorries delivering at Sainsburys petrol stations.
I never buy from BP or Esso (directly) unless I really have to anyway.
V-Power or Tesco 99 is all my baby runs on!
My neighbour trades Nirex oil futures & he told me that crude is $89/barrel today.
Most of the pump price is tax anyway. Motorists are seen as a cash cow, using the excuse of "carbon emissions"
Just blackmail Darling into lowering fuel duty. Simple
I never buy from BP or Esso (directly) unless I really have to anyway.
V-Power or Tesco 99 is all my baby runs on!
My neighbour trades Nirex oil futures & he told me that crude is $89/barrel today.
Most of the pump price is tax anyway. Motorists are seen as a cash cow, using the excuse of "carbon emissions"
Just blackmail Darling into lowering fuel duty. Simple
Edited by brisel on Wednesday 17th October 20:45
Omen said:
Polarbert said:
FYI
Just copying in an email..
AND
Whoever wrote the email needs to take a lesson in British geography, to find out that there aren't 300 million people living here!
Also, I think it's talking World-Wide... Which, to my recollection, is more than 300mill.Just copying in an email..
AND
Whoever wrote the email needs to take a lesson in British geography, to find out that there aren't 300 million people living here!
Beemer-5 said:
Worry time is when it reaches £1.25 and more a litre!
It wouldn't matter whether it went up to £3 a litre, people will still buy it, just use their cars a little less,use public transport or buy smaller cars, which of course would suit the government...I don't think petrol is any dearer (in real terms) than when I first started driving in 1969, it was
expensive then at 6s/4p a gallon.....
Some will be forced ito smaller cars, maybe, which will make many of them miserable!
Public Transport is a no-go for countless people, as it is just not available in so many places.
I think when it gets to £1.25 or £1.50 a litre we will see action from motorists of some kind.
£3 per litre would cause enormous economical chaos in the UK.
Public Transport is a no-go for countless people, as it is just not available in so many places.
I think when it gets to £1.25 or £1.50 a litre we will see action from motorists of some kind.
£3 per litre would cause enormous economical chaos in the UK.
Beemer-5 said:
Public Transport is a no-go for countless people, as it is just not available in so many places.
or it is avaliable but i do at least 200miles for work visiting properties, if i were to go by bus to each place my working week would have to be at least 10days long!! then again i get 35p per mile so dont effect me too much!!matt
scissorhands83 said:
Omen said:
Polarbert said:
FYI
Just copying in an email..
AND
Whoever wrote the email needs to take a lesson in British geography, to find out that there aren't 300 million people living here!
Also, I think it's talking World-Wide... Which, to my recollection, is more than 300mill.Just copying in an email..
AND
Whoever wrote the email needs to take a lesson in British geography, to find out that there aren't 300 million people living here!
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