- Messages
- 150
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
:rant:
> 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
> :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
> 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
> :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
