Reducing Petrol Costs email
Discussion
Has anyone else received this? Is it ligit?
We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer, it may be
even
higher. Would you rather petrol prices came down
instead? We need to
take some intelligent, united action. 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 /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
inconvenient 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!
PLAN
Now that the oil company cartels and the OPEC
nations have conditioned
us To think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP at
77p -80p, we need to
take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS
control the market, 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 (or until the desired
effect is achieved),
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
quickly 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, then 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 only 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, yes
- you're right... ..
THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again,all you have to do is send this to a minimum
of 10 people. That's
all.(and NOT buy your petrol at ESSO/BP). How long
will all this
take? -
If everyone 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
DEFINITELY make a difference.
If this makes sense to you please, please pass
this message on NOW.
PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEIR PRICES GO BELOW 70p A
LITRE. (They would
still make a healthy profit at these prices).
It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this
email, and buy your
petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Jet etc.- i.e.
boycott BP and Esso
We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer, it may be
even
higher. Would you rather petrol prices came down
instead? We need to
take some intelligent, united action. 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 /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
inconvenient 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!
PLAN
Now that the oil company cartels and the OPEC
nations have conditioned
us To think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP at
77p -80p, we need to
take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS
control the market, 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 (or until the desired
effect is achieved),
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
quickly 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, then 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 only 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, yes
- you're right... ..
THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again,all you have to do is send this to a minimum
of 10 people. That's
all.(and NOT buy your petrol at ESSO/BP). How long
will all this
take? -
If everyone 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
DEFINITELY make a difference.
If this makes sense to you please, please pass
this message on NOW.
PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEIR PRICES GO BELOW 70p A
LITRE. (They would
still make a healthy profit at these prices).
It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this
email, and buy your
petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Jet etc.- i.e.
boycott BP and Esso
Not very legit - there are only 60 odd million people in the UK! And petrol is a lot cheaper everywhere else. Pre-tax prices in the UK are among the lowest in the world - the main source of the high price is the government imposed tax.
Vote for a party that will reduce tax on petrol then ... err, umm, errr ...
Besides, BP recently merged with Mobil not with Exxon (parent co. of Esso).
>> Edited by JohnL on Thursday 3rd April 13:00
Vote for a party that will reduce tax on petrol then ... err, umm, errr ...
Besides, BP recently merged with Mobil not with Exxon (parent co. of Esso).
>> Edited by JohnL on Thursday 3rd April 13:00
"oil company cartels" is somewhat predjudical and potentially libellous I should think. OPEC is a cartel. If there were an oil company cartel this wouldn't work (as that's an agreement to keep prices up). As I said above, it's the government primarily not the oil co.s who "condition" us into thinking the high prices are acceptable.
I am sick of the sight of seeing this email and if one more person sends it round our company Im switching the power off on all of our exchange servers.
Doesn't anyone realise that it was probably started by Shell and if it wasn't a clever marketing plan to boost their sales then they sure as hell are laughing their socks off now.
Doesn't anyone realise that it was probably started by Shell and if it wasn't a clever marketing plan to boost their sales then they sure as hell are laughing their socks off now.
We have pretty much the same letter doing the rounds here in Germany. The only difference is that the oil companies in question are Shell and Esso.
Does it help if people in one country boycot (sp?) oil one company and throw their monay at another instead when their next door neighbours behave the other way around ?
Does it help if people in one country boycot (sp?) oil one company and throw their monay at another instead when their next door neighbours behave the other way around ?
trouble is it ain't the oil companies making the money - iit's Blair and co who THE PEOPLE VOTED FOR IN THE LAST 3 ELECTIONS!!!
Petrol here is 46.5p per litre (much lower tax) and the mark-ups are higher than UK. (My local garage can afford to give me 10% off this price AND still make money)
Petrol here is 46.5p per litre (much lower tax) and the mark-ups are higher than UK. (My local garage can afford to give me 10% off this price AND still make money)
Cropped up a few times already, here's the earliest I found.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=10004&f=23&h=0&hw=MUCH+MORE+SENSE
Some good bits in this one.
Andy
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=10004&f=23&h=0&hw=MUCH+MORE+SENSE
Some good bits in this one.
Andy
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