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  • true grit
    DK Veteran
    • Jan 2011
    • 442

    #1

    just received this e-mail

    PETROL WAR STARTS MAY 1st 2012

    THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' PETROL FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET PETROL BACK DOWN TO ?1.00 PER LITRE.

    This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Haliburton. If you are tired of the petrol prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.

    Phillip 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! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance.

    We are probably going to hit close to ?1.50 a litre by this summer and it might go higher! Want petrol prices to come down?

    We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy petrol ...

    By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about ?0.99 per litre is cheap. Me too! It is currently ?1.38 at SHELL and ESSO for regular unleaded, climbing every week.

    Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of PETROL is TOO CHEAP at ?0.87 to ?0.99, 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! 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 companies, ESSO & SHELL

    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 SHELL and ESSO 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 15 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (15 x 10 = 150) ... and those 150 send it to at least ten more (150 x 10 = 1,500)... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over 1.5 MILLION consumers .
    If those 1.5 million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 15 million people will have been contacted!

    If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... 150 MILLION PEOPLE!!!

    Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!

    How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 150 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!
    Acting together we can make a difference.

    If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. Don't buy from ESSO or SHELL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE ?0.99 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

    THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

    REMEMBER ? STARTING MAY 1st NO PETROL FROM ESSO or SHELL!

    (why wait till then, get into the habit by starting now)

  • dctyper
    V.I.P. Member
    • Jun 2008
    • 2539

    #2
    this has been doing the rounds for years

    good idea though

    dc
    Wavefield Ds 55cm at 13E 19E and 28E receiving everything out there on 2 dm800hd

    previous life dm800hd and 500c on cable screw you nag3


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    • Meat-Head
      V.I.P. Member
      • Oct 2009
      • 32000

      #3
      Whoa, hang on, there a rumor going around that clearly states in india, indonisia, botswarna, somewhere is an oil refinery, it pumps out ?20,000,000 a day, if it ever went off line, the country would be screwed!!!!

      OFF TOPIC:-

      Like you get a thick taxi driver in
      "i need my car, loosing ?100 a night"

      No, your not loosing ?100, your just not making it, besides, why can't you use last night's takings to cover for tonight?

      So ?100 a night, that's your morgage 1/2 payed off in 6 months?

      sigpicWas Banned For Being Certifiably Insane and Stupid

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      • Johnner
        Admin Assistant
        • Jun 2010
        • 7069

        #4
        Mortgage 1/2 paid off ? On what.....a cardboard box ?
        Aaahh ! I love the smell of Eeprom in the morning...

        " We'll come in low out of the rising sun, and about a mile out, we'll put on the music . . . "

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        • Meat-Head
          V.I.P. Member
          • Oct 2009
          • 32000

          #5
          Originally posted by Johnner
          Mortgage 1/2 paid off ? On what.....a cardboard box ?
          Sorry, i've just got on-line after a hard days work, i'll be sleeping like a log later. Can't compute numbers at this time of day or anytime of day

          sigpicWas Banned For Being Certifiably Insane and Stupid

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          • nara
            DK Veteran
            • May 2008
            • 2586

            #6
            Originally posted by dctyper
            this has been doing the rounds for years
            At least since 2001...and it wouldn't work anyway. It's just old recycled spam.

            snopes.com: Gas Out
            Last edited by nara; 2 May, 2012, 18:54.
            He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.

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            • johnboy1974
              DK Veteran
              • Dec 2008
              • 3418

              #7
              Dont see how it will work, its not esso or shells fault that the price is so expensive its the governments fault with all the taxes they put on it. All this will do is put them out of business, not reduce the prices on their forecourt.

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              • nara
                DK Veteran
                • May 2008
                • 2586

                #8
                Originally posted by johnboy1974
                Dont see how it will work, its not esso or shells fault that the price is so expensive its the governments fault with all the taxes they put on it. All this will do is put them out of business, not reduce the prices on their forecourt.
                Exactly. The original email came from the USA where taxes on fuel are much less. Whoever adapted it for the UK didn't really think it through.
                He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.

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                • super jumbe
                  V.I.P. Member
                  • Dec 2008
                  • 11610

                  #9
                  The only email I ever received is from people asking for my bank account details, funny I do not have a bank account to give them!!!!!!!!!!!


                  Tools owned: Hammer, Chisel, Crowbar, Punch, Chainsaw, Cutter and Brain!!!

                  Did you know People will question all the good things they hear about you but believe all the bad without a second thought.

                  Note:
                  All information given is to be used for educational purposes only and should not be taken seriously.

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