Petrol Charges

I wouldn’t normally bother you with this but it could help. Let’s
use the power of the Internet. Although greedy government, of any
colour, will not reduce their fuel tax take, while David Cameron is
saying the right words but not doing anything this may illustrate that
people will not roll over.  The last government did all in their power
to make us give up cars yet do nothing to enhance public transport and
reduce those costs so we have to send some sort of message to the
current government that is different from kicking in windows in
Whitehall and, being financial, reins them in.


  Subject: Petrol
                                Dear All,

                                Here is an interesting idea to think
about (and act upon?)...unless you've already received the same
message independently!

                                Please see what you think and pass it
on if you agree with it.

                                We are hitting 129.9p a litre in some
areas now and soon we will be faced with paying 150p  per litre. So
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 -
not sellers control the market place. 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) i.e. 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 all 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 8 days!!! 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 and buy
your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e.
Boycott BP and Esso