Great Idea to bring down petrol prices
14 May 2002, 10:46 PM
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just read on,
This is about PETROL PRICES
Join the resistance!!!!
We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer.
Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some
intelligent, united action.
Phillip Hollsworth, in the USA, 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 with us!
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about 77p a
litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 79p - 83p for regular
unleaded in some towns.
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.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying
petrol. But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act
together to force a price war.
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 about thirty 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.
(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you
have to do is send this to 10 people.... well, let's face it, you just
aren't a mathematician.
But I am... so trust me on this one.)
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
Regards
This is about PETROL PRICES
Join the resistance!!!!
We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer.
Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some
intelligent, united action.
Phillip Hollsworth, in the USA, 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 with us!
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about 77p a
litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 79p - 83p for regular
unleaded in some towns.
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.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying
petrol. But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act
together to force a price war.
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 about thirty 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.
(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you
have to do is send this to 10 people.... well, let's face it, you just
aren't a mathematician.
But I am... so trust me on this one.)
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
Regards
14 May 2002, 10:52 PM
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This has been posted before if i recall correctly. Besides, I only buy optimax, so I'm sorta in the crusade. So far, I've won 5 mars bars and 3 lucozedes from the scratch card. I'm want to win them grand prix tickets though. 
14 May 2002, 10:55 PM
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Just got this E-Mail recently and thought it made some sense with what is going on with petrol prices these days and also with Scoobys liking a bit juice so I thought I would share it with you to see what you all think. Obviously we all pay more for super plus unleaded at around 80 pence a litre so it could still work for us by avoiding the esso garages you can always go to the shell garage and fill up with their super unleaded or Optimax or even normal unleaded.
What do you think??
What do you think??
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14 May 2002, 11:10 PM
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Hey i got an e-mail that might be from the same source!
Wow, the power of the internet
----
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals) when I ran into a friend whose neighbour, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
Anyway, one day this friend went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive and infect all the electronics in his house if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!"
He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)
The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his Missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS".
Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.
Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&M's, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the anti-perspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
PS: Ironically it was also this poor fellow's wife who died after having had sex with a lobster
Wow, the power of the internet
----
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals) when I ran into a friend whose neighbour, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
Anyway, one day this friend went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive and infect all the electronics in his house if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!"
He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)
The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his Missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS".
Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.
Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&M's, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the anti-perspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
PS: Ironically it was also this poor fellow's wife who died after having had sex with a lobster
14 May 2002, 11:37 PM
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Thanks Steve B for a decent reply. It was not my Idea but thought it was a good Idea if it could be done.Unfortunalty I can not be on the BBS every night like some to see what has been posted for the seventh time and the search never ever has worked for me.
15 May 2002, 08:40 AM
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so it's the seventh, eighth, nineth time it's been posted. So what! Does it really matter.
What some people seem to forget is that not all users eat, **** and sleep scoobynet like, well, me.
What some people seem to forget is that not all users eat, **** and sleep scoobynet like, well, me.
15 May 2002, 09:03 AM
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At risk of stating the obvious:
- the oil companies can't drop petrol prices to any significant extent, because the vast majority of the money goes to the Government.
- most of the '300 million' people will be the same few thousand people who keep receiving the same circular email again, and again, and again.
Here's a better idea: just vote for someone else at the next election. If 300 million people do that (which, of course, is impossible, because there aren't that many voters, let alone motorists in the UK), we might get a change.
Roll on the car that goes like a 22B, runs on a mix of junk mail and bathwater, and emits kittens...
Andy.
- the oil companies can't drop petrol prices to any significant extent, because the vast majority of the money goes to the Government.
- most of the '300 million' people will be the same few thousand people who keep receiving the same circular email again, and again, and again.
Here's a better idea: just vote for someone else at the next election. If 300 million people do that (which, of course, is impossible, because there aren't that many voters, let alone motorists in the UK), we might get a change.
Roll on the car that goes like a 22B, runs on a mix of junk mail and bathwater, and emits kittens...
Andy.
15 May 2002, 10:04 AM
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I agree that some people are a little quick to have a go but, to be fair, it was on the BBS for some time, and if people have had as many copies of this email sent to them as I have, then I can understand their frustration. I has almost reached virus proportions. In fact I've even added a message rule to delete all emails with the apropriate subject line from the server.
There are also a few inaccuracies/contradictions within the email, not least of which is that oil companies are responsible for the high prices. I'm afraid that is solely down to Tony's cronies.
The last campaign was aimed at putting pressure on the oil companies not so they would reduce prices, but so they would lobby the government on our behalf in order to save their profits. If that was the approach suggested in this email, I would have thought it might have received a better response.
Josh
There are also a few inaccuracies/contradictions within the email, not least of which is that oil companies are responsible for the high prices. I'm afraid that is solely down to Tony's cronies.
The last campaign was aimed at putting pressure on the oil companies not so they would reduce prices, but so they would lobby the government on our behalf in order to save their profits. If that was the approach suggested in this email, I would have thought it might have received a better response.
Josh
15 May 2002, 06:26 PM
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I agree that some people are a little quick to have a go
A little quick is an understatement, Its always like this I'm just glad we are all friends who eat drink and sleep the Scoobynet BBS.
A little quick is an understatement, Its always like this I'm just glad we are all friends who eat drink and sleep the Scoobynet BBS.
15 May 2002, 07:27 PM
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boultsy: agreed 
Green Scooby: Don't take it personally. It's just the nature of the internet that people inevitably get to see this sort of thing time and again, because (as I pointed out), the 300 million people to whom all these chain letters end up, can't possibly be 300 million unique people. It's virtually guaranteed that everyone to whom you might want to send this sort of thing, will already have seen it. The best thing to do - especially with one suggesting such an obviously pointless idea - is to delete it.
Andy.
Green Scooby: Don't take it personally. It's just the nature of the internet that people inevitably get to see this sort of thing time and again, because (as I pointed out), the 300 million people to whom all these chain letters end up, can't possibly be 300 million unique people. It's virtually guaranteed that everyone to whom you might want to send this sort of thing, will already have seen it. The best thing to do - especially with one suggesting such an obviously pointless idea - is to delete it.
Andy.
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