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petrol prices
Just received this in my inbox - sounds plausable but i'm not holding my
breath. Interesting concept though!. Tom Subject: FW: Petrol Prices We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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 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. 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. However, 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 as you know how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending this note to at least 20 people (paid my subscription to rentafriend this month!). 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 Action: It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso, ASDA and Morrison's are supplied by Texaco! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.692 / Virus Database: 453 - Release Date: 28/05/2004 |
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 22:44:40 +0100, "Tom" >, wrote:
>Just received this in my inbox - sounds plausable but i'm not holding my >breath. Interesting concept though!. >Tom It is posted across half of Usenet <LOL> It is not the price of petrol, it is the amount of Tax. Can you boycott the HM Treasury ? Pete -- > 156 2.0 TS (2001) - Proteo Rosso (his) 147 2.0 TS (2002) - Gem Green (her's) |
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casula snipping>>>
> Can you boycott the HM Treasury ? Isn't that what a tax return is for? LOL --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.692 / Virus Database: 453 - Release Date: 28/05/2004 |
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"Tom" > wrote in message ... > 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. Esso and BP are two separate companies. Yes, buy your fuel from Sainsburys or Tesco instead, everyone knows that they have their own oil wells and refineries and are not supplied with fuels by the big oil majors anyway. Sheesh. -- Simon M. |
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> From: "Simon Mason" > > Newsgroups: alt.autos.alfa-romeo > Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:09:16 +0100 > Subject: petrol prices > > > "Tom" > wrote in message > ... >> 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. > > Esso and BP are two separate companies. > > Yes, buy your fuel from Sainsburys or Tesco instead, everyone knows that > they have their own oil wells and refineries and are not supplied with fuels > by the big oil majors anyway. Sheesh. > -- > Simon M. > > I don't use Esso or BP fuel anyway. Esso petrol seems to be crap and I don't know where my nearest BP garage is. Not using them hasn't done me much financial good so far. |
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Tom wrote:
> Just received this in my inbox - sounds plausable Not at all. Profit to the oil companies on a litre of petrol is 2/3rd of sod all *and* it is illegal for the big companies to reduce their proft margin by much (to prevent them from undercutting the small boys until they go out of business) Other than that, great idea -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk |
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