slob
23-08-2005, 10:05 AM
...chain letter
>
>Hi All,
>
>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 litre.
>
>****** ********* 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 04! 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 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,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott
>BP and Esso.
>
...any thoughts chaps and chapettes?
>
>Hi All,
>
>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 litre.
>
>****** ********* 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 04! 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 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,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott
>BP and Esso.
>
...any thoughts chaps and chapettes?