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>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!
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>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!!
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>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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Originally posted by newkbollox to that u should the tits on the bird at my local esso garage
Good to see you back Newk, how’s tricks?
As for the boycott, I am not sure how effective it would be. Somebody once suggested just stop buying all the other stuff that is sold at petrol stations, fags, sweets etc as this will have more impact as all that kind of thing is very profitable
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Originally posted by Radarquote:
Originally posted by newkbollox to that u should the tits on the bird at my local esso garage
Good to see you back Newk, how’s tricks?
As for the boycott, I am not sure how effective it would be. Somebody once suggested just stop buying all the other stuff that is sold at petrol stations, fags, sweets etc as this will have more impact as all that kind of thing is very profitable
and petrol isnt?
Petrol at a retail level apparently isn’t all that profitable. The money comes in when the oil companies sell it to the forecourt franchise
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Originally posted by RadarPetrol at a retail level apparently isn’t all that profitable. The money comes in when the oil companies sell it to the forecourt franchise
yep, which is why this has never been a successful “boycott” in all the years they have tried it, I have had a barrage of these emails since the depot barrackades years ago.
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