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This arrived in the Inbox this morning and it is placed here for your consideration and to pass along to everyone you know!

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 three biggest oil companies, namely BP, Esso and Shell. 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 BP, Esso and Shell 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 i t 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 BP/ESSO/SHELL) 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. 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, Esso and Shell.

This message originally didn’t have Shell on the list of petrol stations to pass by but I’ve amended that to reflect yet another one of the big boys who need to be taught a lesson!

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1 Comment so far »

  1. Wonko the Sane said,

    Wrote on December 2, 2007 @ 1:52 am

    The only problem with this idea is that pretty much all the petrol sold in Scotland comes from BP’s refinary at Grangemouth. So, if I buy my petrol from my local Sainsbury’s then BP get some of that money.

    In fact, if you break it down petrol costs at the pump include 50p fuel duty and VAT (which is calculated AFTER adding the fuel duty). So, at the current £1 per litre that is 36p (for the actual fuel), 50p for the fuel duty and 14p for the VAT.

    So, if you want the price to come down to 69p that means the petrol companies reducing their part to 9p per litre (remember VAT is a percentage of cost while fuel duty is fixed per litre).

    Finally, petrol companies only make about 1% of their profits from petrol pumps. So boycotting them won’t really make them pressurise the government as they’ll get the money from selling the petrol to retailers that aren’t being boycotted.

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