The email about boycotting certain petrol stations?

[clayderman]

Anyone else got the email about boycotting BP and Esso filling stations yet?

[Wildfire]

No...What are the reasons?

[clayderman]

No...What are the reasons?

To see if we can lower the price we pay for fuel. Below is the email I received earlier.

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

We are hitting 9 8 p 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 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"




There is a possibility this might just work, if not it's a clever plot by other fuel companies to cash in, mind you saying that, there's only one company's fuel on that remaining list I'd trust to put in my bike.

[Kitch]

This has been doing the rounds for ages and is a hoax.

The name of the company changes every so often.

I first remember it being around in 2001

[chaz]

as Kitch says, its been around for years.
I remember petrol at 50p a gallon back in the seventies, there was a mass outcry when it hit £1!!! but back then wages were £35 as an engineering apprentice.

[Fireman on a Storm]

Yes the petrol companies are taking us for a bit of a ride. BUT the government are ripping us off by the high rate of tax.

Over 65% if the price of a liter of fuel is tax

[sirch345]

A bit more on ever increasing petrol prices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/20 ... at_is.html