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Hey everyone! This just landed in my email box & so I thought I would share the idea :)



Hi,

We are hitting 106.9 p 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'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 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!!! 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

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

All the best
 
We already do this
BP is just down the drive for us
But we fill up at sainsburys
Its usually a lot cheaper but the past few weeks there hasnt been much between them.
But we continue to use Sainsburys
its a brillaint idea
they make a fortune out of us
and dont deserve it
Get every one on board :dance:
PEOPLE POWER SHOW THEM WHAT FOR :moon:
 
Hey it does sound like a great idea but Esso actually supplys other garages who arnt Esso. I used to work for Total and our fuel was supplyed by Esso so places such as tescos and other garages may be buying the fuel from them as their own supplys. I am not entirely sure but we defenatly used to get our supplys from Esso so I am guessing they would supply other garages too.

I wish it would work, fuels pricey.
 
I think its a great idea and we never fill up at those stations anyway, we fill up at tescos and get our clubcard points :D
 
Gingercubes said:
Hey it does sound like a great idea but Esso actually supplys other garages who arnt Esso. I used to work for Total and our fuel was supplyed by Esso so places such as tescos and other garages may be buying the fuel from them as their own supplys. I am not entirely sure but we defenatly used to get our supplys from Esso so I am guessing they would supply other garages too.

I wish it would work, fuels pricey.

i was just about to say that....they do supply the supermarkets too aparently...Something went round like that on my OH's car site and he said the exact same thing.
I think esso and BP own most of the oil things too (dont quote me on that though im probably wrong)...but if they do then they will just charge the other petrol stations more to buy if from them to cover their 'losses'adn then they will charge us more....
 
I've read this on other forums and so on.

TBH its a nice idea, but where do people think that the supermarkets get their fuel from? :roll: The depos supply lots of chains and stores. Just the public are not really aware of how the system works.

Walking, using public tranport or getting on a bike would be better, if able. Failing that, scaling down your engine size to use a greener, less gas guzzling car would also be good. Cheaper on the pocket for petrol, insurance, tyres, running costs, road tax..... but who'd trade their big 4x4 or Audi guzzler for a 1.4L VW Golf?

Me actually :)
 
Ive seen this so many times before, everytime petrol prices go up this goes around.

The truth is unless we stop using so much fuel, the prices will never stop going up. Unless there is an alternative fuel option, there is no competition and they can charge whatever they bloody well like :x
 

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