Are you as pissed off as I am at being ripped off for your petrol costs while the governments, by way of taxes, and OPEC by way of holding a loaded gun to our heads, rake in the petro-pounds/dollars/euros/yen...whatever currency you wish to name ?
Don't bother with a one day "I won't buy petrol/diesel for today only" protest which makes fuck all difference to the petrol companies. They can collectively absorb one days loss of about 10% profit. Try this rather innovative idea which won't mean you having to interrupt your life. Copy and paste this text into an email and send it to your friends and colleagues in your address book. Let's try to stop this lunacy of so called oil shortages. THERE ARE NO SHORTAGES ! The OPEC nations are sitting on more wells and known reserves that are not currently being tapped than you could ever imagine.
Go on, try it. You can't lose really ! All I will say is that it's aimed at the UK market with prices expressed in UK£'s but it can apply all over the world regardless of currency.
We are hitting £1. 118 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.26 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 placenot 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 ANYpetrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one),ESSO and BP (they also charge the most now).
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 itto at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to atleast ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reachedover 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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!!
Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.(andnot 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 LITRERANGE
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.
Don't bother with a one day "I won't buy petrol/diesel for today only" protest which makes fuck all difference to the petrol companies. They can collectively absorb one days loss of about 10% profit. Try this rather innovative idea which won't mean you having to interrupt your life. Copy and paste this text into an email and send it to your friends and colleagues in your address book. Let's try to stop this lunacy of so called oil shortages. THERE ARE NO SHORTAGES ! The OPEC nations are sitting on more wells and known reserves that are not currently being tapped than you could ever imagine.
Go on, try it. You can't lose really ! All I will say is that it's aimed at the UK market with prices expressed in UK£'s but it can apply all over the world regardless of currency.
We are hitting £1. 118 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.26 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 placenot 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 ANYpetrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one),ESSO and BP (they also charge the most now).
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 itto at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to atleast ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reachedover 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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!!
Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.(andnot 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 LITRERANGE
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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