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Old May 14, 2008 | 09:10 PM
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Maybe a repost, as i run my own company i dont know if i should give it a go, but im going to try





See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

We are hitting £
108.9 a litre 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'tcontinue 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 takeaggressive 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 theprice 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 i
ttoat least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to atleast 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 ussends 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 differenceIf 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

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Old May 14, 2008 | 09:15 PM
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posted many many times mate on here and as said before it wont work. UK is full of selfish cunts. When people see empty petrol stations they will juist think of themselves and fill up there as it isnt busy!
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Old May 14, 2008 | 09:16 PM
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this old chestnut again?
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Old May 14, 2008 | 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Lee Reynolds
posted many many times mate on here and as said before it wont work. UK is full of selfish cunts. When people see empty petrol stations they will juist think of themselves and fill up there as it isnt busy!
He,s right
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Old May 14, 2008 | 09:21 PM
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The Fuel companies have very little to do with the price of fuel, ITS THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT with TAX, next time vote monster raving loony party!
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Old May 14, 2008 | 10:12 PM
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This must have been going for at least 5 years mate...

Ideal in theory... in practice completly crazy.

And as said the main reason is HM Government, 75% of the cost is Tax, and as everyone wants to appear 'Green' hitting the motorist is an easy shot, nothing can be done as we will always need petrol and so the circle revoles...
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Old May 14, 2008 | 10:19 PM
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69p
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Old May 14, 2008 | 10:33 PM
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You do know where Shell and Morrisons etc get their fuel from dont you ?
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Old May 14, 2008 | 10:48 PM
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http://www.petrolprices.com/price-of-petrol.html

Knocking 8.8p off a litre won't do much
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