Rip Off Fuel Stations

[clivvy]

Hi All,

starting this thread for Lauriash, who sent me this email to copy into this thread, see what you think:


> Please see what you think and pass it on if you agree with 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 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 DON'T purchase ANY petrol 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. 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 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. 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 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