Petrol prices
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Petrol prices
Just got this email...
*We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be
> faced with paying £1 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
> **a**ggressive 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 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
> i**t** 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!!! 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
Not a bad idea if every one joins in !
Mark
*We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be
> faced with paying £1 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
> **a**ggressive 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 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
> i**t** 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!!! 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
Not a bad idea if every one joins in !
Mark
It's such a con. Where else in the world is fuel this expensive?
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From: hampshire
its got nothing to do with the petrol companies its the goverment who make our petrol expensive via tax
out of every £20 of fuel £16 goes to the goverment in tax
the remaining £4 is devided between the petrol station owner, the petrol company and the oil comapny
if u hate paying over the odds for fuel moan at the goverment not the petrol companies
out of every £20 of fuel £16 goes to the goverment in tax
the remaining £4 is devided between the petrol station owner, the petrol company and the oil comapny
if u hate paying over the odds for fuel moan at the goverment not the petrol companies
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was gonna say it about 99p at cheapest place near me!
i usually use morrisons as i have one of their miles cards but my dad told me to sometimes go to like bp and fill up because of some sort of difference in the petrol i dunno wasnt paying enough attention.
i usually use morrisons as i have one of their miles cards but my dad told me to sometimes go to like bp and fill up because of some sort of difference in the petrol i dunno wasnt paying enough attention.
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