Teh Petrol Campaign

Daws

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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 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!!! 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.

Let's do it, imo. :kissit: to E$$o.
 

Dillinja

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Making yourself an enemy of giant oil distributors probably isn't the best idea. BP might arrange a little 'accident' for you. :p
 

Daws

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All I can say is, "Bring it, bitches!" ;)
 

Gordonax

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1. Stop driving SUVs
2. Stop driving distances of less than 2 miles
3. Chill out a bit.
 

Coim

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Because doing things based on something that was included in a chain mail is kool m8s.
 

Sissyfoo

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Grown up discussion going on here, Coim. :p

I agree with Gordondax though. People drive too much and insist on buying mass petrol consuming behemoths so that they can...what? Why DO you need a 4-wheeled tank in the middle of the fucking city? People are such gullible sheep!

You drivers have no sympathy from me. Petrol prices should go up another £2 so people are discouraged from driving all the time and start to use public transport/walk/cycle!!
 

Dillinja

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Sissy is correct. If humanity wasn't full of so many lazy fuckheads we would have a much better planet to live on and we wouldn't have to worry about Mr. BP putting up his already sky-high prices because there would be enough oil to go around for everyone.
 

Zephyd

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Sissyfoo said:
Grown up discussion going on here, Coim. :p

I agree with Gordondax though. People drive too much and insist on buying mass petrol consuming behemoths so that they can...what? Why DO you need a 4-wheeled tank in the middle of the fucking city? People are such gullible sheep!

You drivers have no sympathy from me. Petrol prices should go up another £2 so people are discouraged from driving all the time and start to use public transport/walk/cycle!!
I couldn't agree more with you Sissy!
 

Daws

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So maybe the solution is to try and make BP raise their prices rather than lowering them? ;o
 

Chilly

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Gordonax said:
1. Stop driving SUVs
2. Stop driving distances of less than 2 miles
3. Chill out a bit.
exactly, get a fucking bike, or some shoes, you know for FEET, that you WALK on.
 

Coim

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Sissyfoo said:
Grown up discussion going on here, Coim. :p
138. :p

Fact is, it will not make a difference.

Wow, a couple of hundred people won't buy petrol from a certain company, that'll really scare them. :rolleyes:

And it will be only a couple of hundred people. Simple truth is 95% of people don't bother reading chain mail and just delete it.

Face facts, it's foolish and naive to try and change things which are way over your head.
 

Aiteal

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I need my car
I have to drive 78 miles in total every day to my job in the car factory
To make cars so that people can drive to work......

wait a minute.........
 

Aoami

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BP/Esso are made of fucking money, they'll just buy out companies if they need too.
 

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