We  are hitting 121.0 a litre in some areas now, soon we  will be faced with paying 150.0 a litre. 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)  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 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 8days!!! 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 90p a LITRE   RANGE  

It’s easy to make this happen.  Just forward as an email to everyone in your address  book, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet, etc. i.e. boycott BP and  Esso
  Regards
  John  Gwilliam
  JR  Motors
  07970661504