High fuel prices - Is boycotting the answer?

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Postby Judge » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:30 pm

replies in this thread would be appreciated with your thoughts initially !!

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See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it. 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: 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 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 8days!!!
Acting together we can make a difference If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on (cut and paste into your email). PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE. It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email(as suggested), and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc.

i.e. boycott BP and Esso 

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Postby Big Niall » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:01 pm

the price of oil hit an all time record today. From memory you supported the invasion of Iraq. The increased instabilty of the region has caused this and so you end up paying a lot more.

WE are all just lucky the dollar is at a record low (against euro)
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Postby Judge » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:03 pm

Big Niall wrote:the price of oil hit an all time record today. From memory you supported the invasion of Iraq. The increased instabilty of the region has caused this and so you end up paying a lot more.

WE are all just lucky the dollar is at a record low (against euro)

lower taxes then niall - take the buffer from there


i also support the invasion of your home and surrounding area  :D
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Postby Big Niall » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:09 pm

Lower taxes defo.

As for invading my home - I'll give you a list of neighbours that I think you should take out for strategic reasons. :D
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Postby lakes10 » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:32 pm

we are at 99.9p litre here. Its a bit of a joke and something needs to be done....horse and cart anyone?
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Postby Sabre » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:44 pm

As for the idea, it can be effective. The prices are outrageous here aswell.

But, I wonder whether the idea came from the keyboard of the 3rd English oil company :D very convenient for them!
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Postby Judge » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:13 pm

Big Niall wrote:Lower taxes defo.

As for invading my home - I'll give you a list of neighbours that I think you should take out for strategic reasons. :D

deal  :D
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Postby metalhead » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:28 pm

Hmm.. it will be hard to lower taxes.

We have alot of taxes here too, but boycotting wouldn't do anything to change the taxes on Fuel. I know, its a rip off!

Investors are just being scared about oil.
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Postby Dundalk » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:35 pm

Its a great idea but I think they tryed something like this before this and it didnt work
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Postby dawson99 » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:48 pm

way too many cars nowadays. personally i just use cabs or mates all the time so i couldnt give a monkeys. fuel and car costs as a whole should rise due to the way they are destroying the planet. so there.
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Postby Judge » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:17 pm

dawson99 wrote:way too many cars nowadays. personally i just use cabs or mates all the time so i couldnt give a monkeys. fuel and car costs as a whole should rise due to the way they are destroying the planet. so there.

dawsons private pirate dvd selling is also ruining the film industry, so there  :D
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Postby dawson99 » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:27 pm

argh!!! one thing i hate more than all the cars is piracy!!! now i need to relax...thanks!
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Postby Judge » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:54 pm

dawson99 wrote:argh!!! one thing i hate more than all the cars is piracy!!! now i need to relax...thanks!

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Postby 112-1077774096 » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:57 pm

40p a litre here so haha to you lot


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Postby Judge » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:59 pm

peewee wrote:40p a litre here so haha to you lot


:D

the average wage is threpence though, so haha to the beggars over there  :D
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