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This is a copy of an Email i received
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
We are hitting £1:00p a litre for petrol in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1:10 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 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 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
This is a copy of an Email i received
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
We are hitting £1:00p a litre for petrol in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1:10 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 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 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
Edited by neilbm on Tuesday 13th November 19:31
As someone who owns a petrol station you need to attack the goverment who are now making three times as much oil tax from the north sea than they were this time last year. Crude oil is at an all time high of 88 dollars a barrel. The tax at the pump is more than 84%. Shell is selling petrol at less than cost as are the supermarkets. Petrol stations work on a margin of less than 2p per litre thats a fact if you use your plan all that will happen rural petrol stations will close with all the social problems that brings, last year 730 petrol stations closed.WE have the highest taxed fuel in europe the French and the Americans would not sit back and let it happen.
130R said:
Vesuvius 996 said:
Oh god.
More than 70p a litre is DUTY.
Exactly, target the government not the oil companies.More than 70p a litre is DUTY.
Edited by JulesV on Thursday 8th November 11:04
scooterscot said:
As someone who owns a petrol station you need to attack the goverment who are now making three times as much oil tax from the north sea than they were this time last year. Crude oil is at an all time high of 88 dollars a barrel. The tax at the pump is more than 84%. Shell is selling petrol at less than cost as are the supermarkets. Petrol stations work on a margin of less than 2p per litre thats a fact if you use your plan all that will happen rural petrol stations will close with all the social problems that brings, last year 730 petrol stations closed.WE have the highest taxed fuel in europe the French and the Americans would not sit back and let it happen.
It's not my idea. But we defo need to take a leaf out of the French and Americans books and start to oppose the massive tax on fuel. I work at Toyota, and had to take our parts van out as we had no loan cars. I noticed that my fab collegues left me the duty of putting diesel in it! £1:04 a litre!!!!!!!!!!! I was shocked! Filling up a 2 litre TDI Hiace isn't cheap, I got the money back, but I honestly can't believe it! It looks like it is getting higher by the day!!!!
Sorry rant over!
Sorry rant over!
If you really want to do something about this you may want to try the following
1. Write to your MP demanding his/her immediate help lobbying Brown for a reduction in fuel duty
2. at the next election do not under any circumstances vote labour
3. Write to David Cameron telling him you'll vote conservative if he reduces fuel duty
4. If Cameron wont do that write to Nick Griffin advising you'll vote BNP if they'll take on the battle for reduced fuel duty / death of speed camera's / public mutilation of Dick Bumfun (north welsh plod chap)/ end of immigration etc etc etc
1. Write to your MP demanding his/her immediate help lobbying Brown for a reduction in fuel duty
2. at the next election do not under any circumstances vote labour
3. Write to David Cameron telling him you'll vote conservative if he reduces fuel duty
4. If Cameron wont do that write to Nick Griffin advising you'll vote BNP if they'll take on the battle for reduced fuel duty / death of speed camera's / public mutilation of Dick Bumfun (north welsh plod chap)/ end of immigration etc etc etc
Could we not get someone with a legal background to write a draft letter on behalf of the members of Pistonheads. This way if we then all print a copy off and sign it then send to our local MP's, we should be able to cover a fair amount of them.
Either that or has someone started one of the Number 10 petitions. Tony B Lair took a bit of notice of the last one that went up.
More than one way! Just buy an old diesel fat burner and use old chip oil from your local chip shop, They have to pay to have it taken away so they will let you have it, or go to Neto and buy big bottles of veg oil etc. Mix it 2 thirds diesel and run it on that. And it is legal!
NO ITS NOT. Any homemade diesel must be declared to the TAX man.
NO ITS NOT. Any homemade diesel must be declared to the TAX man.
This old shite dredged up from previous discontent about petrol prices...In the 'olden days' we would have picked up our weapons and marched down to London to kick them all out. Now we're not allowed to have weapons and if we all marched down to protest outside the House of Commons we would probably just get arrested and/or we would just spend a day out in the cold to no effect. So much for the democracy that we're supposed to be living in.
sod the tax
i am just warming up the globe then the goverment will be flooded out of london
one day with a big tidal wave.
what that coment had to do with th topic i dont know and at this time of night ....dont care
just to be realy anoying my sister livs in Kuwait and pays about 9 p a ltr
i am just warming up the globe then the goverment will be flooded out of london
one day with a big tidal wave.
what that coment had to do with th topic i dont know and at this time of night ....dont care
just to be realy anoying my sister livs in Kuwait and pays about 9 p a ltr
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