cheap petrol and diesel

[paddyz1]

Got this email today.................................

CHEAP PETROL AND DIESEL


See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying L1 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 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 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.

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Lets dicuss

I think this could work. There are plenty of choices around for me so I could do this. I dont know about people in other areas as it may be harder.

What do you think





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[back_marker]

Sounds like a good idea but there is a big difference between getting the message to 300 million people and getting those same 300 million people to play along.

I think the vast majority will read the e-mail, think what a good idea and then promptly stop at an Esso garage the next day and fill up the Chelsea tractor. Not on purpose but because when push comes to shove people are creatures of habit and some just won't put themselves out for something that won't produce results straight away.

Very cynical I know, but thats just the way I see it.

Besides, I don't think I've got 10 friends to send that to

[Gio]

69p a litre hah, it was the government who put the price up by 2p as the price of oil has fallen below the tax threshold they want.

A better idea would be if everyone used public transport for a week around london or use a bicycle if its a 5 mile journey.


TBPH the price of oil dioesn't worry me anymore I'm using on average one tank of fuel a month now, not 5 or 6. I'm sure if I can do it most can. Just think if you could reduce the amount of fuel by 80% what would happen to the price then? (BTW thats for private use, obviously business can't do that).

[BikerGran]

I think this idea is about as likely to work as all the other schemes that have been mooted. The only people it will affect is the franchisees that run the petrol stations, as Shell and BP sell fuel to lots of other companies. Their main buisiness is selling fuel wholesale, not the minor business of running petrol stations.

Nice try though.