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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Strontium Dog on 28 March 2010, 16:36:22
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Sorry that I don't post much here but I have sold the Omega to a friend who is loving it now.
Any way,this was posted by a friend of mine on another forum. Please take the time to read this and join in, it makes sense!
I found this article on another forum and thought I'd post it here.
(I believe this did the rounds last year or the year before.)
The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.
See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
We are hitting 119.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 1.50 a litre. 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 90p 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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Its a chain letter, its purely to collect email addresses. Highly recommend you do not forward it.
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Oh, and this particularly chain has been going at least 15yrs, and makes bugger all difference. Remember, it ain't the oil companies, its the retards in Whitehall ;)
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ha, that one has been going around for years now. Just ignore its a usual chain letter rubbish
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Oh, and this particularly chain has been going at least 15yrs, and makes bugger all difference. Remember, it ain't the oil companies, its the retards in Whitehall ;)
I'm somewhat older than you Jaime - and my guess is that this particular chain has been going for nearer 30 years! As you say it makes b*gger all difference to the prices.
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As above, a very old chain letter.
If the people of the UK actually had the gonads for any form of cohesion (and an understanding of what cohesion actually means), then we wouldn't be paying what we pay now for fuel because we would have nipped it in the bud before it started.
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Nothing to do with the UK tbh.
I was in Spain last week, and the fuel prices there were exactly the same as here. :(
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I stopped buying from BP stations years ago for the simple reason they were given grants from taxpayers to find new fields to reduce uk prices. they took the money and have since shafted us and are always the dearest sites in my area.