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Eyupp i was just sent this...... it might work i reckon
>See what you think
>
>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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!!
>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!!! 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
>
>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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!!
>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!!! 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
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