andsome Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I have just received the following e-mail. I think it's well worth a try. Subject: Campaign to Reduce Petrol Prices (not a joke!!)Campaign to Reduce UK Petrol Prices - a rip-off at 80p a litre Worth a try I suppose! We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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 at 77p -80p, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace 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 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 Action: It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p)Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Radfordin Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 As a theory it has more potential than the "don't by petrol on X day" apprach had but still has a significant flaw......who do they think supplies the petrol to the likes of Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons etc? I know Sainsbury's used to be supplied by Shell but don't know what happens now.Oil production is controlled by OPEC and it is not going to be in the interests of any fuel supplier to cut their prices unless eveyone else does it. I think the chance of a price-war is fairly slim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Anything is surely worth a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest northamuk Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 The price is dictated by the government - 78 pence in the pound goes to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Vote Conservative at the next election :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 One more time is all he'll get! :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Vote Conservative at the next election:huh: :wacko: :blink: :censored: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Actually, if memory serves me right the chancellor raised the duty at the last budget, but it's not due to take effect until Seotember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Actually, if memory serves me right the chancellor raised the duty at the last budget, but it's not due to take effect until SeotemberThat's correct except that it's September. I intend to vote U.K. Independence party in the European elections, and Conservative in the council elections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Andsome when I made my post I needed a P :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Andsome when I made my post I needed a P :PHope you enjoyed it. I always do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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