turbo pete
04-05-2002, 14:13
Last year there ws some success regarding fuel prices with all the demonstartions and so on. I just recieved this email from a friend. You guys can do want you want with it. It does bring up some fair points. The internet could be a very powerful tool for the people if we just got off our arses.
READ THIS.... this is about PETROL PRICES
Join the resistance!!!!
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 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 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 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.
(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.
READ THIS.... this is about PETROL PRICES
Join the resistance!!!!
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 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 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 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.
(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.