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From: Marc Anger <marcanger@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:36:18 +0100
  Do your bit!!
  I hear 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 wimp 
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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

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