We've all witnessed the price setting by petrol companies. Give it a go
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> Subject: Fw: Petrol Prices Must Read
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> The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while, But the oil
> companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not
> do
> anything as they rake in extra VAT for every increase.
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> See what you think and pass it on if you
> agree with it
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> We are hitting 114.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced
> with
> paying 1.50 a litre. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> For the rest of this year DON'T PURCHASE ANY petrol FROM the two biggest
> oil
> companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.
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> 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 wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how
> simple it is to reach millions of people!!
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> 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
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> pass this on to ten friends each, then
> 30
> million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further,
> you
> guessed it... ...
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> THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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> 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,
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> 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 90p 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.
> BOYCOTT ESSO and BP.
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