Have a look at this email that is circulating;

We are hitting €135.09 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying €1.50a litre. Have a look at this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certainday campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn'tcontinue 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 usto think that the cost of a litre is unavoidable and therefore OK, 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, weconsumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see theprice 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 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 ittoat least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to atleast ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reachedover 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 andnot buy at ESSO/BP. How long would all that take? If each of ussends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within thenext 8days!!! Acting together we can make a differenceIf this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES!

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy yourpetrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Statoil, Elf etc. i.e.Boycott BP and Esso

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your[/font][/color][/color][/size][/font]petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Statoil, Elf etc. i.e.Boycott BP and Esso

And where do you think they buy their petrol from?

You may gain a bit of leverage from causing damage to their forecourt businesses, but to get the market price much lower and return the power to the buyer, the only course of action is either direct civil disruption, national driving strikes, go slow days etc or everyone reduces their need for fuel by a big amount.

Chris

That email's been circulating for years.

Have a look at this email that is circulating;

We are hitting €135.09 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying €1.50a litre. Have a look at this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certainday campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn'tcontinue 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 usto think that the cost of a litre is unavoidable and therefore OK, 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, weconsumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see theprice 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 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 ittoat least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to atleast ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reachedover 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 andnot buy at ESSO/BP. How long would all that take? If each of ussends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within thenext 8days!!! Acting together we can make a differenceIf this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES!

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy yourpetrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Statoil, Elf etc. i.e.Boycott BP and Esso

This again! - It didn't work last time. It will not work this time.

Hmm let's see everyone down south gets their fuel from fawley so what with facility sharing I can't see you hurting them one bit.

It's and old mass mail and to be quite fair civil disobedience where everyone doesn't go to work until something is done would hurt the gvt and the petrol companies as nobody would use much fuel.

It would also hurt the UK economy though.

Agree with everyone else

but I buy from Shell, purely cause i have a drivers club card.

I did used to fill with BP ultimate diesel when I had works vans (it was "only" 1.04 pl roughly and normal diesel was about 90p back in 2004/5)

We are hitting €135.09 a litre in some areas now,

One hundred and thirty five Euros?

That's about ninety five pounds a litre.....

Are yes, the old email thats been doing the rounds for a long time, each time it appears the prices are different.

Are yes, the old email thats been doing the rounds for a long time, each time it appears the prices are different.

And yet for something that's just a copy & paste email , it gets more spelling mistakes and typos each time it re-surfaces

135 euros per Litre!!! Wow the pounds really strong these days

Still utterly pointless as it was back in 2000.

Did you also know that people will phone you and claim to be from visa tyhen scam you, someone will try and rape you next time you fill up with fuel, and if you type weapons.......

:repost: :bwrspam: - and not even true; BP and Esso are not the same company.