Just got this via email - might be an idea!

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

We are hitting £1.20 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced

with paying £1.25a ltr.

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

rice 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

ehem that’s just one of those e-mails intended to waste folks time, you send on and on till IT come round and beat you up for crashing the server

Its not the price from the oil companys thats the problem .

Its the greedy duty and the vat

Wouldn’t it be funny if it originated from somewhere like Texaco's marketing department, "I've got this great idea to increase sales..."

Yeah IT junk - forward to 10 friends NOW or you will die!!!

Besides, since when did tesco have oil rigs and refineries?? I guess they mut buy their petrol elsewhere eh??

not this again.....

i see this email over and over again, and each time its a waste of effort...

got to face facts, oil prices are not going to go down.

when was the last time anything went down in price?

got to face facts, the rich are bleeding the rest of us dry.

You don't get it do you? Fuel tax is not an accident. It hasn't gone up and they didn't realise. Governments are quite keen on climate change. They've put the price of fuel up deliberately. The whole point of a tax to reduce consumption is that the tax hurts. If it didn't, it wouldn't be doing its job. Protests and things just show that the tax is hurting and is doing its job. You won't reduce fuel tax by protesting. To think that is will is a bit naive.

If you genuinely think that a tax on polluting fuels is wrong, you need to convince the government that global warming isn't influenced by the burning of fosil fuels. Saying that fuel is expensive won't work because they want fuel to be expensive.

Had this a few times now , we live near a BP distribution depot and guess whose tankers go there to fill up ?
So even if not selling it across forecourts they wil still be makingit from distribution further up the chain, non starter this idea I'm afraid
atb
mike

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Originally posted by saigonij
not this again.....

i see this email over and over again, and each time its a waste of effort...

got to face facts, oil prices are not going to go down.

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ASDA - TESCO - BP & SHELL all get there fuel from the same place. in scotland - Grangemouth - Boycotting one one work.

Last time they blocked Grange mouth, everyone gave up just as the government were statring to hurt.

What we need is a way to get Grodon Brown to reduce Fuel Duty. Fuel in UK is cheapest to produce but dearest due to tax.

I don;t grudge shell & BP increasing the price as there cost is going up( not if a barrel of crude goes dwon fuel still goes up :mad daily. What I do grudge is that everytime fuel on the forecourt goes up Gordon Brown get anther million or so in duty.

Problem is he now can;t afford to reduce the duty as he relies on the captial it generates.

We need a concrete plan to :

1) Get duty reduced
2) Get rid of Gordon Brown & that A. Darling twit.


note: if Gordon Brown reduced duty so that fuel came down to 70p /l then he surely would win another term

Just got meself, and having seen it before about boycotting a certain supermarket I think it won't gather much momentum.

I'm all for direct action, but its not go slow's or anything like that. Anyone seen that guy who's been outside parliament for years protesting about the iraq war? Making no impression what so ever IMO

No, the only thing left is to riot, burning things and causing mayhem. Anyone remember the poll tax??

got to agree with various other posts - this stupid "lets boycott a certain supermarket / oil company" email is repeated so many times on here and should be banned!!!

Total waste of time!! For starters its the tax / duty / VAT thats the real issue. Secondly the price of oil is controlled indirectly by OPEC and what that monopoly choose to release into the marketplace so Shell / BP / Esso etc etc dont exactly get a choice in the matter.

A few people boycotting one company is going to make very little difference to their profits and is akin to shooting an elephant with an elastic band and a little piece of folded paper and expecting it to fall over dead.

If you want to make a difference then the only way to do it is wait for the next general election and put your little X somewhere else. We've all seen the government continue to try and say increasing the various taxes on cars is an environmental step. How many motorists are in this country. Every motorist needs to take the same action to have any sort of impact on this dictatorship we have in place at the moment - how about every car driver joining the haulage industry and bring the whole of London to a standstill from the M25 inwards - that would get their attention!!

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Originally posted by Paul TigerB6

shooting an elephant with an elastic band and a little piece of folded paper and expecting it to fall over dead.

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I don't think there are 300 million people in this country who buy petrol

That assumes that polititions really want to stop climate change, not just increase there "green credentials" to get more votes... if a few green votes comes at the price of the majority, then there would be a u-turn.

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Originally posted by smart51
You don't get it do you? Fuel tax is not an accident. It hasn't gone up and they didn't realise. Governments are quite keen on climate change. They've put the price of fuel up deliberately. The whole point of a tax to reduce consumption is that the tax hurts. If it didn't, it wouldn't be doing its job. Protests and things just show that the tax is hurting and is doing its job. You won't reduce fuel tax by protesting. To think that is will is a bit naive.

If you genuinely think that a tax on polluting fuels is wrong, you need to convince the government that global warming isn't influenced by the burning of fosil fuels. Saying that fuel is expensive won't work because they want fuel to be expensive.

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trouble in this country is its all talk. We need to be more like the french block the ports and protest in capital and keep doing it when the goverment do somthing the mojority dont agree with. also aint it about time we called for a end to road tax as the alternative to cutting fuel tax.

All we need is david cameron to say he will reduce duty on fuel, then gordon brown will "steal" the idea!

Darren

lets boycott all the party elections and bye elections in the future until one party bows and promises to lower tax on fuel and to give us some alternative transport ideas and deliver them on time and on budget or am i just dreaming .

NO - lets VOTE to ensure that we get who we want - boycott of election will give us no right to complain, and the green part will get in from all the tree huggers.

Lets set up a Political Party call "None of the Above" (Simpsons) with the sole manifestio item to reduce fuel duty etc. Show my giving the people a choice we can change this country!