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Stan
Joined: Jul 08, 2003
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From: South Wales (Barry)
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Have just been sent this email. I think its a great idea.
BTW - My post in NO way represents the thoughts or feelings of the owners of Esato (little disclamer there  )
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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.
SPREAD THE MESSAGE
Stan
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Smoke dog
Joined: Jan 15, 2004
Posts: 170
From: Manchester
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This will only hurt the companies selling the petrol. But they are not the one causing the price increase, its the taxation on petrol 70%.
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batesie
Joined: Feb 13, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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there are even better reasons to do this. greenpeace have been trying for a while, check out www.stopesso.com
for wappers...
Climate Change worse thanWMD?
Climate change is a far bigger threatthan global terrorism, according to TonyBlair's chief scientific advisor, Sir DavidKing.
King has caused a storm with hiscomments, published in a guest editorialin Science magazine in January. He hascriticised the lack of action by the BushAdministration, and clearly labelledExxonMobil (Esso) as a company tryingto undermine the scientific concensus inthe US on climate change.
After his editorial, King led a team of UKscientists visit to the US, where they wentto Seattle and to Washington to talkabout climate change.
"On climate change Britain has nowtaken a leadership position. We areworking very hard with governments inRussia, Australia and the US to push theKyoto agenda. None of these countrieshave signed up and we'd like to getthem signed up," he told the BBC'sRadio 4 "Today" programme.
King has been outspoken about the US'sfailure to sign up to Kyoto.
"As the world's only remainingsuperpower, the United States isaccustomed to leading internationallyco-ordinated action. But at present theUS Government is failing to take up thechallenge of global warming," he toldScience magazine.
"The United States is already in theforefront of the science and technologyof global change, and the next step issurely to tackle emissions control too.We can only overcome this challengeby facing it together, shoulder toshoulder. We in the rest of the world arenow looking to the U.S.A. to play itsleading part."
"Delaying action for decades, or evenjust years, is not a serious option. I amfirmly convinced that if we do not beginnow, more substantial, more disruptive,and more expensive change will beneeded later on. We need early,well-planned action, for example, toallow businesses to plan to act in thecourse of normal capital replacementcycles and to encourage thedevelopment of new energytechnologies."
In evidence on March 10 to a UK Houseof Lords committee he accusedExxonMobil (Esso) of funding lobbyistswho are trying to undermine theconsensus on global warming bysuggesting that scientists are divided onthe nature of the problem.
"This is the biggest issue for us toface this century.
It's manmade. The science is done. It'scomplete. It's a matter of politicalunderstanding. I personally have littledoubt that unfortunately, as time moveson, the global warming events such asthe very high temperatures in Europeover the past summer and the floodingtwo years before will occur morefrequently, and the understanding ofwhat's driving these will become moreapparent."
Sir David is not the only one to compareglobal warming to WMD. He follows theformer UN arms inspector Hans Blix, andSir John Houghton, the former co-chairof the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change's scientific assessment,who have both made similar statements.
Climate Science Update
February 16: In the US, scientists fromthe US Energy Department's PacificNorthwest Laboratory warn that globalwarming will diminish the amount ofwater stored as snow in the WesternUnited States by up to 70 percent in thecoastal mountains over the next 50years. And that, they say, is the "bestcase" scenario.
March 3: The world's second-largestreinsurer, Swiss Re, warned onWednesday that the costs of naturaldisasters, aggravated by global warming,threatened to spiral out of control,forcing the human race into acatastrophe of its own making.
March 05: The University of Bernreports that last summer was the hottestin 500 years.
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slattery69
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: north east england
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Its not a bad idea but who supplies the supermarkets were its branded tesco etc we could join in but still be giving them money
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Andy.
Joined: Apr 27, 2002
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Thats just a chain e-mail they always seem to surface when petrol prices get high.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_no_gas_may_19th.htm
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mixin
Joined: Jan 26, 2002
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From: Notts, UK
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It's all a nice idea, but in the real world it doesn't work.
That email was going round last year (or was it the year before?) and it didn't work then, so cant see it working this year 
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Vlammetje
Joined: Mar 01, 2003
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From: Den Haag
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when you're driving on the highway on gasfumes rather than the last drop... you will stop and fill it up at the next gas station you see. No matter what brand.
It's THAT simple.
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gelfen
Joined: Nov 22, 2003
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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"trying to undermine the consensus on global warming by suggesting that scientists are divided on the nature of the problem."
any consensus on global warming is based on politics and popular opinion. there is growing dissent in the scientific community about the extent of global warming to date and it's true cause (whether it be man made or natural), and whether the Kyoto Accord is in fact worth the paper it's written on. personally i'm open to being convinced either way, but i'm not going to going to form an opinoin without listening to both sides. i'm certainly all for minimizing pollutants and guarding against potential environmental disaster, but greenpeace isn't exactly the most reliable source for factual information and rational debate.
being pro-environement is politically fashionable, which is not to say it's bad but it should not be mutually exclusive from pro-truth.
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Vlammetje
Joined: Mar 01, 2003
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From: Den Haag
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even if we would NOT let out any gasses, our biggest rain forest holds enough co2 to continue our global warming at the same rate.
not to say our fumes are good, they're obviously not. however nature itself can harm us just the same
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