And those of you in the UK that drive.. Read it & maybe take it onboard..I copied 'n pasted it so it's kinda crappy to read but bear with it & maybe even tell you're parents about it too !!
> >> 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 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!!!
> >>
> >> I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you!
> >> 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, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and
> >> Esso (Tesco).
> >>
> >> POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
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