We are hitting EUR1.35.09 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be
> faced with paying EUR1.50 a litre. Have a look at 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,
> whoeverthought 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 unavoidable and therefore OK, 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 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 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!
> >
> It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
> petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Statoil, Elf etc. i.e.
> Boycott BP