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Lower Petrol Prices!
Corley
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Just got this email from a mate see, have a quick read, its worth a try
>Consumer Action......
>
>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
>orMay! 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 theidea: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!!
>
>I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at
>least ten more (30 x 10 =00)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more
>(300 x 10 =,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth
>generation ofpeople, 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!!! 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.
>It's
>easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at
>Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and
>Esso.
>
>John R Knight
>
>Small Stores - Retail Development
>
>78000 3500 / 0113 241 8500
>Consumer Action......
>
>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
>orMay! 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 theidea: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!!
>
>I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at
>least ten more (30 x 10 =00)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more
>(300 x 10 =,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth
>generation ofpeople, 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
>out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people
>could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! 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.
>It's
>easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at
>Shell, Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and
>Esso.
>
>John R Knight
>
>Small Stores - Retail Development
>
>78000 3500 / 0113 241 8500
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Comments
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Urban legend
Here I go again on my own....0 -
I'm no expert in this area, so this is just a novice's viewpoint.
I wasn't convinced by last April's stay-away campaign, and I remain unconvinced by this latest attempt. I accept that Esso & BP may have an extensive network of petrol stations (retail outlets), but their core business is that of oil refining and supply of petrol & DERV (diesel) - the BP & Esso refiners supply about 35% of the UK market; some is supplied to its own outlets, the rest ends up at supermarkets (usually via a wholesaler/distributor).
The 1998 Office Of Fair Trading report entitled Competition In The Supply Of Petrol In The UK suggested that the BP & Esso supplied 42% of all fuel in the UK at that time - so there is some basis for boycotting BP & Esso. But, in my humble opinion, the thinking is flawed - simply because fuel is perceived as a necessary commodity rather than a luxury product. Consumers need fuel. If this campaign succeeds in consumers boycotting Esso & BP garages, demand will simply switch to supermarkets - the supermarkets will demand more fuel from the wholsesalers, who will in turn to........yes, you've got it, the Esso & BP oil refiners of this World. Esso and BP retail outlets may suffer slightly, but increased wholesale supplies will compensate accordingly.
PS:
I found the OFT report at:
http://www.oft.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/E4B33F81-D468-4E0B-9928-98AE814BBFAA/0/oft229.pdf0 -
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