Re: High Fuel Prices

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Posted by Phil Rhodes on August 19, 2005, 12:43 pm
 
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1. Cross posting is very poor form!
2. The high oil price reflects the fact that oil is free to seek it's price,
just like pork bellies or any other commodity that is traded.
3. The new big player on the oil market is China. Because all of virtually
our cheaper products come from China, We are directly responsiple for the
high price of oil!
4. A real solution would be: Don't Buy Stuff that is Made in China!!!!
5. Of course, we don't wanna buy stuff made in the Middle East either, but
my pickup truck and my motorcycle run on gasoline, and I gotta!
Phil

Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;

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 marketplace 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 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, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e.
boycott BP and Esso.



Posted by Richard on August 21, 2005, 8:18 am
 
Hi all this is an idea that has just been e-mailed to me;
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm



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