Hi All All listers who live in the UK may be interested in this e-mail which I received from a friend regarding the price of petrol. It's an idea that might even work regards Peter > We are hitting 95p 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 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 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. 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. > > POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!