Petrol price campain

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We are hitting £116.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 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

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



See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

 

[Malcolm]

I have seen this one before but also it won't work as who supplies petrol to the likes of Tesco etc? BP and Esso.

I wish I was still paying just £1.16 per litre. Round here we are seeing £1.35 per litre for diesel and £1.21 for regular unleaded. Funny but running my diesel van is more costly per mile than sensibly driving my 996 because of the difference in the two types of fuel and that the fuel economy of the Porsche is actually quite good if you behave reasonably with the right foot. Glad I work from home!

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

See...
snopes.com: Gas Out

 

[Brian Magee]

Have you noticed that now Tesco's etc have killed all the small local filling stations, their prices are the same as the big stations. I would now sooner use the main petrol stations than the Supermarkets.

Brian.

 

[John Fitzpatrick]

In the mid eighties when oil and gas companies were going out of business by the hundreds, I don't remember anyone saying "Help them out, buy more gas." Around Tulsa, the big joke was "Who's the biggest US employer of Petroleum Geologists? Walmart!" downtown Houston was near empty. But it's called the business cycle for a reason, and things have improved.

My personal observation is that meddling with a free economy usually makes things worse than the problem that provoked the meddling. To quote the economist David Henderson: “….virtually every government intervention leads to unintended consequences that then lead to further interventions. So, for example, Nixon's 1973 price controls on gasoline caused us to waste hundreds of millions of dollars in time lining up for gas. That led the U.S. government to dictate the fuel economy of cars. The fuel economy laws caused auto companies to make lighter cars, causing a few extra thousand deaths a year. The gasoline lines also caused people to be more sympathetic to intervening in the Middle East.”

And so it goes.