Petrol - alternative to panic buy?

>>Subject: Rising Petrol Prices!!!!
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>>Please read to the end. Thanks
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>>See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it. We are
>>hitting 95p
>>a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 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 whimp 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 8days!!! I'll
>>bet you
>>didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! 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 Asda, Tesco,
>>Sainsburys,
>>Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.
>>
>>POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!
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Admirable but

When the customers of Esso and BP start to flood the forecourts of the other suppliers, thereby causing queues and ultimate shortages due to a probable 10-15% upsurge in demand at those stations, people will start to hunt around for alternatives - like Shell and BP.

 

Boycott

People shouldn't buy from Esso anyway. And definitely not Coca-Cola.

 

RE: Admirable but

What statistics are you basing your theory on..I think that you could be miles out.

 

RE: Boycott

why boycott Coca cola?

 

RE: Boycott

And why would you put Coca Cola in the car?

 

They're reight ********.

In India they're using water from underground that contains such high levels of insecticide that farmers are spraying their crops with coke.

 

Why would anyone put it in their mouth?

 

RE: Why would anyone put it in their mouth?

aH, but thats a different issue

 

RE: They're reight ********.

but our s is made in Wakefield and its fantastic for cleaning patio's!!

 

I work for BP .... !!!

....I don't buy fuel from them anyway, they are way too expensive

 

Don't you get discount?

 

RE: Don't you get discount?

There was a rumour about this some time back but they were only talking 1-2p off a litre so it was still cheaper at Tesco's !!!

 

RE: Don't you get discount?

(lol)

 

RE: Don't you get discount?

BP are an amazing company - they make most of their billions getting the stuff out of the ground and then selling it to other people for vast profits

...Oh and their car washes - most BP stations recycle the water so each one costs them about 4p - to you however £5.50