Apologies if this has been already posted, but I got this rather interesting e-mail in my inbox today!
I think this could be worth a try.
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We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer.
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Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.
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> >Philip xxxxxxx 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.
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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.
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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 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
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> >Action:
> >It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p)Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.
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I got that email last week but am sceptical of whether enough people would do it to make a difference.
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mm very very clever idea... let me know when it works. I won't hold my breath....
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No no no no no no no...it wont work. Mr Brown will still get his money from tax, regardless of where you buy the petrol from.
Stop this... I've had this email fifteen times and my head is hurting from banging it on the keyboard!
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Agree with Pologirl, I don't care whether fuel is 18p or 21p, it's the other 60p I object to. Brown and B'liar will always take their cut.
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Right............so what are you going to do about it?
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For a reality check listen to the Moral Maze now in Radio 4. Today's situaion may be the least of our worries.
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Do Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons have oil wells - probably buy their fuel from Esso/BP.
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Perturbed
new Wed 2 Jun 04 20:30
Right............so what are you going to do about it?
a) Vote for change away from the LibLabCon in the current Euro Elections.
b) Carry on using 43p/litre vegetable oil farmed in Europe
etc...
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Fuel crisis? What fuel crisis? My Seat Arosa returns an average, yes, average, of 78MPG.
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"For a reality check listen to the Moral Maze now in Radio 4. Today's situaion may be the least of our worries."
For those of us who missed it, what were the pretentious windbags on about last night? (Whoops! My prejudices are showing.)
V
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