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[Curly7]

hi guys and gals, i just received this email, and thought i'd post it up here: it basically says to try and not buy any fuel from ESSO or BP (who are the same company) to try and get them to put their prices down, and hopefully the others will follow. worth a try i reckon!  

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
 

[JamesV6CDX]

How many more times do I have to read this.  

It's a load of rubbish! Been doing the rounds for months/years.

No offence intended....

[JamesV6CDX]

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

You think the'll shave 40p off a litre of fuel?

[mkaminski100]

No way, it’s more to get your e-mail addresses than to fight for a cheap petrol. LPG is getting more popular in UK – try this, you will save some money and other people will follow you. More people will convert their cars, lower it’s going to cost. Pure economy – more demand, more supply, more competition -> lower prices.
In Poland LPG is in ca 20-25% of all cars. This way there is a big market and while the LPG prices are going up (stupid ideas about increasing taxes – sounds familiar?) , more people are asking about CNG (Compressed Natural Gas - methane). It is more expensive to convert any car, tank can take less, but because the demand is increasing, manufacturers are improving their systems. Also, with small effort you can buy a CNG pump and “buy” fuel from your house (it’s the same gas).
If you have a diesel engine – go to any take away and ask them about oil (not the palm oil). Get a container, filter it (5, 3 and 1 microns), add 2 different acids, let it work for a night and you can mix it up to 70% in your tank. You can do it legally.
I think this might help. I don’t want to fight any company, it’s useless. We can go for a cheaper cars. I can assume, taking the example from Poland that within next 3-5 years, there will be an LPG conversion garage in every town and one day government will put their hand on DIY installation (these are not allowed in any other EU country)

[Kevin Wood]

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

You think the'll shave 40p off a litre of fuel?

Total rubbish. For every one of us who exercises discretion, or even looks at the price, there are a dozen reps with company fuel cards doing 60K a year who just pull in and fill up wherever it's convenient.

Kevin

[JamesV6CDX]

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE

You think the'll shave 40p off a litre of fuel?

Total rubbish. For every one of us who exercises discretion, or even looks at the price, there are a dozen reps with company fuel cards doing 60K a year who just pull in and fill up wherever it's convenient.

Kevin

Agreed

[HolyCount]

Didn't this one pop up here a few days ago ? I agree with earlier comments ---- this idea is a no-go

[TheBoy]

Comes up regularly, and has for 10yrs. This one is obviously quite old, going by prices - 69p!  FFS, fatty brown takes approx 70p + VAT before anyone else.

[Curly7]

sorry for wasting your time then.. jeez