Petrol Prices - This is an excellent idea! Read Read Read..
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I received this e-mail and normally I hate these type of e-mails. But this sounded a bit more like it to me.
Sorry its wordey but I am just copying the whole e-mail:
The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the labour government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase, to help make up for the financial disaster that we are in, thanks to 10 yrs under Gordon Brown first as chancellor of the exchequer and then as unelected prime minister.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
We are hitting 119.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 a 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 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 90p 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.
Sorry its wordey but I am just copying the whole e-mail:
The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the labour government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase, to help make up for the financial disaster that we are in, thanks to 10 yrs under Gordon Brown first as chancellor of the exchequer and then as unelected prime minister.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
We are hitting 119.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 a 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 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 90p 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.
rharris21 said:
Miserable barsteds. So why isn't it a good idea? Never noticed how BP is always most expensive seller of fuel?
I bet you lot wouldn't moan if fuel suddenly became cheaper!!
Because it's utter bI bet you lot wouldn't moan if fuel suddenly became cheaper!!
ks, petrol has gone up because tax has gone up and the exchange rate has gone down, crude oil is in $.FFS.
rharris21 said:
Miserable barsteds. So why isn't it a good idea? Never noticed how BP is always most expensive seller of fuel?
I bet you lot wouldn't moan if fuel suddenly became cheaper!!
I started to list out the reasons why its a dumb assed idea there and have just concluded that if you cant work it out for yourself, then you'll be too dumb to understand anyway.I bet you lot wouldn't moan if fuel suddenly became cheaper!!
edo said:
balders118 said:
I saw this posted a few months ago on facebook. It really wouldn't work. Also, don't the two biggest supplies supply all the supermarkets with their petrol anyway? So you'll just be redirecting their income.
this.They should go on a cruise and not come back until they have a definitive list, linked to Google maps, of all the Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda oil rigs in the ocean.
It won't make that much difference but every little helps.
You guys really make me laugh... talk about typical brits love to moan but wont do f**k all about it.. so your saying that this idea isnt worth a go?? yeh we may redirect sales but that still means they dont get as many sales atthe stations they pay rates on to run.. plus anything to try get petrol prices down is worth a try RIGHT...?
leanbean said:
You guys really make me laugh... talk about typical brits love to moan but wont do f**k all about it.. so your saying that this idea isnt worth a go?? yeh we may redirect sales but that still means they dont get as many sales atthe stations they pay rates on to run.. plus anything to try get petrol prices down is worth a try RIGHT...?
I have an idea, if we water down our fuel it will last longer, reducing demand and forcing the price down.Anything to try get petrol prices down is worth a try RIGHT...?
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