Just got this in a email




See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

We are hitting 106.9 p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.10 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!

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!!

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 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 RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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A reasonable enough idea in principle, but the content of the message is at least 3 years, maybe more, old.
It didn't work then and I doubt it will work now. As a nation, we just don't get wound up enough over these kinds of issues unfortunately. In France, the lorry drivers would have blocaded every main road across the country until the Government gave in.

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Have to say that's what i like about the French RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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WINNER - 2008's Funniest Incident

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Have to say i agree, even a blockade would not work this time as the people in power have a plan in case of a repeat of a couple of years ago, involves the Army. Trust me, it's not popular with them either. Speed Limits! not where I live!

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The French are good at influencing their Government in such ways; we should learn from them.

I for one will adopt this ban on BP / Esso although Esso is my local station.

As far as it not working, I think that is down to us to make it work ig you feel strongly enough about it !

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from what I understand 70%+ of petrol prices in the UK are taxes, so why punish the oil companies?

As consumers, and tax payers, unfortunately our voices aren't heard by the Government in relation to lowering taxes.. therefore if we hurt the large oil corporations, they will in turn puppeteer their drones in the government and tax will drop as a consequence to correct the prices (not sure what a correct price would be, as we've always been paying far too much for our fuel!).