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Some of you may have seen this already but I have just received this email.
IT COULD WORK, AT NO MORE THAN A SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE TO OURSELVES.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
>
> We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we
> will be faced with paying 2.00 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 aggressive 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 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 8days!!! 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
>
>
WELL I SHALL HAVE A GO, AND IT WILL BE GOOD FOR MY LOCAL VILLAGE GARAGE TOO.
PAULINE
IT COULD WORK, AT NO MORE THAN A SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE TO OURSELVES.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
>
> We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we
> will be faced with paying 2.00 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 aggressive 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 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 8days!!! 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
>
>
WELL I SHALL HAVE A GO, AND IT WILL BE GOOD FOR MY LOCAL VILLAGE GARAGE TOO.
PAULINE
