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jammods
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Found this on another site:
“I hear we are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth, in the USA, 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 with us!
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about 77p a litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 79p - 83p for regular unleaded in some towns. 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.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying petrol. But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act together to force a price war.
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 about thirty 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 o f 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. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am... so trust me on this one.)
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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.”
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mhorton
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Yeah I have just read that on another site?, Which one did you get it from?
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jammods
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http://www.cliosport.net - Its a good site |
mhorton
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O right cool. I'll have a look then. I know it's on the my sites message board as well,
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asevitz
Joined: Dec 17, 2001
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Guys this is a hoax.
Read here for more information
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm
Adrian Sevitz
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mhorton
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O right
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Bazboy
Joined: Feb 25, 2002
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From: Leicester, UK
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Whether its a hoax or not... its a damn great idea to start action on these greedy oil companies. Its definately possible and will work.. Itll hit them hard and theyll be forced to lower their prices and others will follow suit too.
Anyone else heard anything about this? Itll be good to see it actually happening.
Its about time this flares up again - but last times impact was well outta control for some people - but with positive control and sticking to the large company itll work a treat.
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Andy.
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hmmm i recived the exact same message as an email at work today.
sounds like a chain e-mail. |
arien617
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Bumping this.
77p a litre. Talk about the "good old days".. :\\
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fatreg
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yeah I filled up at 30p more than that today!!
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tapojyoti
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I don't understand p's so much(all I know is gbp,pound,crown,half a crown..Oh..does p count for pence?)..but the price chain is similar to indian currency..at 2001,as someone told me the price of 1litre petrol was least at Rs50 and the sell price was 75Rs ..now it's about 105...  |
dougproctor
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Petrol in the states is about $3.60 a gallon at the moment and they are complaining!! Nice to fill your tank for about £25 again!!
Sorry lads........
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jcwhite_uk
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On 2008-05-02 16:19:00, tapojyoti wrote:
I don't understand p's so much(all I know is gbp,pound,crown,half a crown..Oh..does p count for pence?)
Crown? That hasnt existed for years. We use ponds and pence (1 pence or penny being 100th of a pound).
To compare, our unleaded petrol is the equivelant of 87.22R now
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Davo_169
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in australia its around 1.50 a litre
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pmerryman
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Something has to happen soon, or its gonna get to the stage, where people cant afford to drive their cars.
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Posted: 2002-05-07 14:04
