Petrol Protests - pass it on to reduce cost of Petrol/Diesel

[morrismen]

Received this today... copy and paste it and pass it on to your mates... We'll get the government to reduce the cost of Petrol if everyone can help with this.

> Pass it on people !
>
>
> Prices - a rip-off at 80p a litre
>
> >We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. are petrol prices
> to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.
> >
> >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 at 77p -80p, 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
> >
> >Action:
> >It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
> petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p) Jet etc. i.e. boycott
> BP and Esso.
> >