Petrol related chain email
Discussion
Just got this, thought some of you might find it interesting:
[quote=Chain email]
Read this and pass it on.....
> 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 ltr.
> 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 8
> days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential,
> did you! 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.
>
>
> POWER TO THE PEOPLE
[/quote]
[quote=Chain email]
Read this and pass it on.....
> 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 ltr.
> 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 8
> days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential,
> did you! 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.
>
>
> POWER TO THE PEOPLE
[/quote]
Chain email said:
> 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!!!
I love this bit. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Yeah and if it happened another 3 times it would reach three hundred billion people, oh hang on....
dieseljohn said:
Chain email said:
> 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!!!
I love this bit. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Yeah and if it happened another 3 times it would reach three hundred billion people, oh hang on....
That is priceless, it also assumes that everyone who gets the chain mail, doesn't know anyone else who has received it! Unfortunately, the chain mail has been sent to the same 5,000 people over and over and over again
GregE240 said:
How many more times?
Do a bloody search for this....its been posted before. Lots of times.
Well maybe the fact that lots of people keep repeatedly posting this (me included
) means that a lot of people think it's worth doing something, and maybe this could be stickied somewhere by the almighty powers that be, along with all the other crap that the almighties in their infinite wisdom decide should be stickied? 
AlexRWD said:
How many more times?
Do a bloody search for this....its been posted before. Lots of times.
Well maybe the fact that lots of people keep repeatedly posting this (me included
Dig out Flemke's post in one of these topics. Sums up the flaws in the e-mail nicely.
Podie said:
GregE240 said:
How many more times?
Do a bloody search for this....its been posted before. Lots of times.
Well maybe the fact that lots of people keep repeatedly posting this (me included
Dig out Flemke's post in one of these topics. Sums up the flaws in the e-mail nicely.
Anything to do with the fact it's about silly tax rather than multinationals?
Yep. 
NEXT!I received this at work today from a young admin girl.
So I msn-ed her and asked her did she know how much of the price of petrol was tax?
The response was "don't know and don't care"
(and her husband is a flipping executive car driver - so he'd be worried about the price of petrol!)
So I msn-ed her and asked her did she know how much of the price of petrol was tax?
The response was "don't know and don't care"
(and her husband is a flipping executive car driver - so he'd be worried about the price of petrol!)
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