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WHITEYRS4
November 15th, 2007, 19:47
Copy and pasted from another site.:thumb:

I only ever fill up at either Tesco's for diesel or Shell for V-power or normal unleaded.

Maybe this would work? Had it in an e-mail today.

We are hitting 95p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 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 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 8 days!!! 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 :rs4kiss: :R8kiss:

itisme
November 15th, 2007, 20:03
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... ..



Already in school, we were told, that the in german called "schneeballsystem" (snowballsystem?) is not going to work, but I wish you the best to fight against the oil companys...

but you guys should be lucky, we pay 1,50€ fot a litre super... that is expansive...

JavierNuvolari
November 15th, 2007, 22:40
Sadly mate...that would probably not work. Iwas reading an article the other in which they said that unlike the OPEC had spected, fuel prices started affecting demand, this caused a small drop on the price per barrel.

Here in Chile we pay around US$1.25 for 97 octane.

Cheers all.

If I wanted to really screw this companies, I would only use my car on weekends...during the week I would drive my bike or bicycle.

Rutkowsky
November 15th, 2007, 23:36
Already in school, we were told, that the in german called "schneeballsystem" (snowballsystem?) is not going to work, but I wish you the best to fight against the oil companys...

but you guys should be lucky, we pay 1,50€ fot a litre super... that is expansive...

In London i pay £1.09 for V-Power and £2.45 for BP's 102 per litre, nice!

Jani
November 16th, 2007, 06:39
Good idea to focus the boycott to biggest companies. But how much of the fuel price is oil, or in any way production-related, and how much is tax?

Id say 70% of the fuel price is tax. So if OPEC and refineries would give it for free, it would still cost more than 1€ per litre.

itisme
November 16th, 2007, 07:55
Id say 70% of the fuel price is tax. So if OPEC and refineries would give it for free, it would still cost more than 1€ per litre.

so true!

PetrolDave
November 16th, 2007, 12:28
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 only it were that simple .... a friend was trying to follow this rule so she went into a local supermarket to fill up instead of using the BP garage he normally does.

Guess what?

An Esso tanker turned up to fill the supermarket garage tanks with fuel!!!