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PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:14 am 
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i got the following sent to me as a email what do you think would it work???

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See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

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 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


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This has been doing the rounds for years. Usually after every price rise.
No I don't think it will work. The big oil producers all pi55 in the same pot. Petrol and diesel sales are only a small part of their business, Most of the price of the fuel is duty and VAT. Petrol and diesel are to some extent, the by products of the refining process. The companies actually want other forms of oil from the crude and collect the petrol and diesel because it is harmfull to dispose of it any other way. The other oils that are collected are used by industry for such things as power stations and rubber making, to make a car tyre uses vast quantities of oil.

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Has anyone not received this email? I deleted mine months ago.
Grandad is right. Most of what we are paying goes straight to the exchequer.
Perhaps it's time that the drivers, smokers and drinkers of this country stopped subsidising everyone else, and the government started taxing everyone openly.

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They used to do that years ago. Income tax was 33% if I remember right.

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grandad wrote:
They used to do that years ago. Income tax was 33% if I remember right.
At least it was open and fair. Stealth taxes hit people unevenly and unfairly, taking no account of ability to pay.

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