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Boggert:
Anyone else got this...???

PLEASE READ ALL
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>See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it.
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>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:
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>This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy petrol on a certain day
>campaign that was going around last April or May!
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>The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't
>continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol.
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>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!
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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!!
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>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!
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>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?
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>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 8days!!!




Is the problem with the Tax on petrol not the price of petrol its self ???
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strapping young lad:
isnt that email from petrolprices.com?

if not im sure ive received similar from someone i hadnt spoken to in 5 years which made me be a bit sceptical about the email

mentalmoshio sophs V8i:
if u think  a quid is  bad god job u dont live in worcestershire its 105p for unleaded and 109p for diesel ouch.........

V8MoneyPit:
Most petrol stations are not 'owned' by the petrol company, but by small businesses who buy a franchise. The profit on fuel for the franchise owner is only a few pence per litre. Not buying the fuel from them will not make them lower prices, they can't afford to. This is why most stations have a big shop. That's where they make their profit, not from fuel.

The fuel companies then take something like 20% of the price in profit (obviously varies considerably between companies). The rest is tax as you rightly suggest.

discoverytdi:
Erm veg oil. Bio diesel. lpg anyone

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