Noonster
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Subject: Campaign to Reduce UK Petrol Prices - a rip-off at 80p a litre (THIS WILL WORK)
Doing my bit - Now you do yours!
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.
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.
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MarkM
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Was on yesterday.....
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Noonster
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 - Missed it 
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TNM
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the thing is Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrison's Asda etc buy their petrol from BP and the like so it wont really work! and the super markets subsidies the petrol with the super market!
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Marc
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whoever thought up this idea is gay.
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BigSte
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Registered: 27th Aug 02
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bp are robbin bastards anyway, i use Shell.
cost me 81.9 other day...........gettin ridiculous.
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micra_pete
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Registered: 23rd Apr 03
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also, if you want good fuel, you have to go to good companies,
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willay
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at the moment I'm getting my fuel from sainsburys, using 2p/4p off every litre vouchers aswell, which is rather useful.
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corsa-sxi
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Registered: 11th Jul 03
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lol noonster ur a bit late  i just cant believe it 81.9p when the americans can have it half price with their single figure mpg gas guzzlers  
[Edited on 27-05-2004 by corsa-sxi]
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Corsa E-Tec
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my esso 10 seconds away from my house is the cheapest around! 
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Graham
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i always buy from morrisons anyway, got my miles card and its right across from my work 
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Noonster
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa-sxi
lol noonster ur a bit late i just cant believe it 81.9p when the americans can have it half price with their single figure mpg gas guzzlers
[Edited on 27-05-2004 by corsa-sxi]
Well i onyl got it sent to me today
Anyways people are still replying 
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Noonster
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Registered: 20th Jul 03
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I always buy from total coz ive got my TOPS card and that theres one right near me and where i work!!
Payed 81.9 last time i filled up and im nearly empty again
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Wolfy
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
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my local supermarkets doing it for 79.8p 100 meters on the other side of the road its 82.6p whats the diffrence? get the petrol delivered in a new truck or something?
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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Would people kindlty stop emailing this to me had it 7 times now 
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Robbo
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Tesco Express' use Esso
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R Lee
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i payed 89.9p for optimax
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Robbo
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Optimax for an SXi?? I don't even use it for my Civic
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R Lee
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Optimax for an SXi?? I don't even use it for my Civic
yes i know i pamper my car
a little too much
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Marc
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Optimax for an SXi?? I don't even use it for my Civic
cheapskate
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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Nope... Honda manual specifies without a shadow a doubt that 95 RON is absolutely fine
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MikeLamb
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Registered: 23rd Sep 03
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i use it in my 1.2 16v.... i know it prob sounds stupid but i can notice the diff! the first time i used it my mum put it in without telling me and i noticed that there was quite a diff
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R Lee
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with the price of optimax now, i can't justify buying it, even for the difference in smoothness.
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MikeLamb
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Registered: 23rd Sep 03
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how much is it 4 u? is 83.9 for regular or 85.9 for optimax so is like £1 a tank more
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paul_spurrell
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Registered: 14th Sep 01
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in america its something like 27p per litre. I was speaking to an american friend and she said the price of petrol in the USA is really expensive. Yeah right ok
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