Just got this email going round, do folks here think it could work?
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> Makes sense to me
>
> See what you think of this and pass it on if you
> agree with it
>
> We are hitting £123.9 a litre in some
> areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £2.00 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 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 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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