Just got this and I am already doing my bit with Shell (although Optimax is a lot more pricy!
)
Doing my bit - Now you do yours!
We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. ant 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
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 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.
Come guys, we can make a stand here!
