Rising Petrol Prices - pls read and pass on

External Since: Aug 28, 2005 Posts: 1

Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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!!
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> 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!!!
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> 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. It's easy to make this happen.
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> Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco,
> Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.
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> POWER TO THE PEOPLE
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Seems a good idea to me!

Is it Ok if I post the letter in a couple of Aussie Forums tonight?
And the US?

Good Work 99 Twisted Evil

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