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Dopey

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We are hitting 99.9p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1+ 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 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 MILLIONPEOPLE!!! 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.
 
yeah boycott bp, buy shell!!

i'v always tended to avoid bp as they'r more expencive than all the other places up here. me mpg's figures always drop on the supermarket fuels as well, tho i always thought the fuel came from the same refinery so fook knows whats up wi that!!

anyhoo BUY SHELL!!!

doobie
sittin in his shell boiler suit, at work for shell, singin the shell company song........
 
no esso or bp garages near me anyway - so never buy it - usually morrisons

this email was doing the rounds 2 or 3 years ago - never made any difference then & it won't now :rolleyes:

3 reasons why not

1. however much you agree with the idea (if there was a bp, shell or esso garage near me to boycott - i would) the majority of british people are apathetic (or should that be pathetic ? ;)) & won't do it long enough to make a difference.

2. the main problem with the price of petrol is the tax & the vat (tax on tax) not the profit the fuel companies make.

3. where do you think the small companies & supermarkets get their petrol from - do sainsbury's have their own refinery ? - i think not ;) don't know if it's true but someone told me all tesco's fuel came from Esso.
 
i say put it on shoes. thems a good thing ter tax cos blokes has 1 pair o shoes, wears em till they is ****ed then replaces em with 1 pair, whereas wimmin has a cupboard full o shoes and even then they still need a feckin new pair if theyre goin anywhere. fer me its got to be shoes!
 
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