PETROL PRICING - COLLECTIVELY WE CAN REDUCE THE PPL
PETROL PRICING - COLLECTIVELY WE CAN REDUCE THE PPL
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Rocket Pepper

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1,281 posts

246 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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Received this email today. It's a great idea, and one that could work.

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

[b]We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 2.00 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 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 [/b]

Flintstone

8,644 posts

277 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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Is this doing the rounds again? I think I read somewhere that this wouldn't work, at least not get the price down to 69p/litre, because the oil companies don't have that much profit margin. Isn't the main slice of the price tax?

pwd95

8,459 posts

268 months

Rob_J

14,025 posts

251 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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Oh FFS not again....rolleyes

...how many lessons in petrol economics do people need....sleep

Rocket Pepper

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1,281 posts

246 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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No lessons thanks. If 10 cars 'broke down' on each and every Shell / BP forecourt everyday for the next week I'm pretty certain the resulting profit loss to Shell / BP would be in the millions. Continue such an exercise every quarter and I'm pretty sure the power of protest would put the greedy baskets on the back foot.

As for this doing the rounds. It's the first time I've come across it. Some of us are out driving our motors rather than languishing on Internet forums. Which reminds me. The North York Moors are calling the Griff. See ya wavey

tvrgit

8,489 posts

282 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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Rocket Pepper said:
No lessons thanks. If 10 cars 'broke down' on each and every Shell / BP forecourt everyday for the next week I'm pretty certain the resulting profit loss to Shell / BP would be in the millions. Continue such an exercise every quarter and I'm pretty sure the power of protest would put the greedy baskets on the back foot.

As for this doing the rounds. It's the first time I've come across it. Some of us are out driving our motors rather than languishing on Internet forums. Which reminds me. The North York Moors are calling the Griff. See ya wavey
There's a strange irony, is there not, in posting on an internet forum to say that people who post on internet foreums are wasting their lives...

As for the original idea, I think it was originally translated from the Rosetta stone which was a protest about the price of caulking pitch for egyptian boat hulls. The protest failed then too - the Romans took the taxes just the same...

Flintstone

8,644 posts

277 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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Come on RP, don't take umbrage. It's just that this email really is as old as the hills. Perhaps you received it late what with the leccy being slower up north?wink
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