Consumer led revolt to curb petrol/diesel prices....

ninty9er

I received the following email this evening from my uncle. It had come from email addresses at 2 of the larger new car importers/distributors in the country before getting to him, so I assume it's been to more of them and been forwarded to a lot of people in the industry.

I've sent it on th 30 people...not sure if it would work, but only ESSO/BP have anything to lose...so what the heck.

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

We are hitting 1.30 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with
paying 2.00 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 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 90 CENT PER LITRE
RANGE

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
petrol anywhere except at ESSO/BP.

JHMEG

There is no BP in this country? Is your uncle in the UK?

The biggest supplier here by a long shot is Topaz/Statoil/Shell.

ninty9er

JHMEG wrote: »

There is no BP in this country? Is your uncle in the UK?

The biggest supplier here by a long shot is Topaz/Statoil/Shell.

Supplier yes, but the largest producer is Esso. Nope, all previous senders were in the Republic too. ESSO & BP are apparently (according to the email) now the same company

JHMEG

Google for "Philip Hollsworth" -- seems it's been doing the rounds since 2006.

Eg http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

ninty9er

took a while to get to Ireland so!!

Steve

I've sent it on th 30 people...

Can't believe you haven't seen this before - n00b.:D

peasant

Ok to close this one then?

Yes?

Yes