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By *thwalescpl OP   Couple
over a year ago

brecon

THIS DEFINITELY DOES SEEM TO MAKE SENSE.

LET'S TRY IT!

We are hitting £129.9 a litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 per litre. So 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 if you agree, 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 - not sellers, control the market place. 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 (2011) DON'T purchase ANY fuel from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one) i.e. 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 all around the world.

Well, it's really simple to do!!

Please don't wimp out on me at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach the millions of fuel-buyers we need to make it work.

I am sending this note to at least 30 people. If all 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

(or as many as you can). That's all you have to do plus NOT buy motor fuel at ESSO/BP).

So 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 plus MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

AND PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES.

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.

Just imagine the panic at BP and Esso Headquarters when

the fuel sales (and product sales from their forecourt shops) suddenly begin to fall.

Send this to ten e-addresses (or as many as you can) and not buy anything at BP or Esso forecourts. A simple yet effective way to see what a difference People Power can make.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think there are a few forums you missed out on this....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

PS you do realise where Asda, Morrisions etc get their petrol from and where refineries get their oil from....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The only problem with that is that most forecourts actually get their fuel from these two suppliers in the first place.

All that would acheive is more people losing jobs.

Think the price of petrol is mainly due to tax, same with tobacco and such goods.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It would be great for BP et-al as they wouldn't have to run and manage forecourts (which can turn into loss leaders) and instead just sell wholesale.

I think the underlying problems are more systemic and harder to solve than having a little paddy about it imho. build lots of nuclear power plants now, but hey sure the NIMBY people would have a protest about that. - just make them all sit in the dark!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Move to the US if you want cheap fuel, They might start wars over oil but at least they to supply their citizens with cheap fuel, over here our government start wars to get cheap fuel so they can get a bigger cut

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