campaign to reduce petrol prices

[half_empty1]

just got this as an email.

We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer.

Want petrol prices to come down? 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 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 at 77p -80p, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace, 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 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

Action : It's EASY to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy
your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p!), Jet, etc. and
boycott BP and Esso.

 

[frenchuk]

I'm all for that, especially since coincidentally, the baril of crude has almost doubled since the beginning of the invasion of Irak - of course that wasn't planned, of course it's a coincidence that Bush's election campaign was paid for by... Exxon, you guessed it!!! But that was all in the name of humanitarian reasons of course... How naive do they think we are??? Michael Moore movie to be released is apparently fantastic on the subject of Bush's lies, and before you slag it off, have the intelligence to go and see it!

Now the only problem with that idea is that the biggest pimp is the governement, who makes about 80% of the sales price (not of the profit, of the sale price, yes) so if you don't buy from Esso/BP you penalise Esso/BP which is great, but if you don't buy there you buy somewhere else, so it makes fook all difference for the governement who continue to be a happy pimp :bang: :bang: :rant: %$fan

 

[skippy]

Now the only problem with that idea is that the biggest pimp is the governement, who makes about 80% of the sales price (not of the profit, of the sale price, yes) so if you don't buy from Esso/BP you penalise Esso/BP which is great, but if you don't buy there you buy somewhere else, so it makes fook all difference for the governement who continue to be a happy pimp :bang: :bang: :rant: %$fan

I'm sure if Esso & BP feel enough pain they are well in a position to make Blair and Co feel plenty of pain too $%3un

 

[Wolfie]

already do that.

The gov. are the ones that cause the grief, need a way to get at them.

 

[shropslad]

Cut the tax

Is the only way to reduce the cost of petrol,,,,,, government needs sorting,,,,, I'm off to buy some gun powder,, see if I can have more success than Guy Fawkes ,,,, whos coming with me ?? :neenaw:

 

[Wolfie]

shrops, i have found a back door that leds to a cellar, hurry up i fed up holding the door open!!!! :neenaw:

 

[tootyfluti]

Count me in!!

 

[Steve Walker]

Good Idea. Count me in. :yo:

 

[shropslad]

You still holdin that door

Been out & got the gun powder,,,,, filled my 41 litre paniers & my topbox,,,, just thought we could ride down ,,, light the fuse & ride the bike straight into number 10 ,, I'll need to bale off first though,, ,,,,, oh & i'll need a lift back home :neenaw:

 

[Wolfie]

sorted!!! how long you need to get there, next week be ok (you on a blue one etc)