fuel prices. read this one

[spud]

>"Price of Petrol" -
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>Received the following which sounds like a good idea. A very interesting
>idea...AND it will work if ALL Australians get behind it!!!
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>We are going to hit close to $1.35 a litre by the winter.
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>Want petrol prices to come down?
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>We need to take some intelligent, united action.
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>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.
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>BUT, whomever 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
>.89 / .95 cents, 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.
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>Here's the idea.
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>For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest
>oil companies (which now are one: 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 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!!
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>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
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>message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over
>THREE MILLION consumers!
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>Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all (and not buy
>at 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.
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>PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 80cents a LITRE
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>RANGE
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>Action - It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy
>your petrol at Shell, Caltex, Mobil, g,a.s. or Gulf Outlets and drive right
>on by BP Stations.

[Reddez]

It won't work, as in some states there is say only a bp refinery, and each company buys the raw fuel and add their bit to it, eg optimax/ultimate. Also some of the smaller servos still buy from the larger companies. So whats that gonna do??? Really if you wanna hurt the big companies everyone buy woolworths petrol, its crappy imported fuel from indonesia as far as im told, thatll hurt em good, oh and itll also hurt your car, but fuel will be cheaper...

[HONES]

i work for bp and that wouldnt happen...

Im sure no geminis buying no fuel from BP would help

Now sit down

[Mr bayce]

Hey Cocksville
did you listen to the news on the radio today?

BP under seige as a result of mass email...

its doing something

[Frederick Stienheld]

serious?

[Mr bayce]

yeah triple m
about 1:00pm
i was suprised hey!

[Frederick Stienheld]

shit, how cool is that. heh. My cousin sent it to me last week sometime and then I saw it on this site today but I didn't think it was gunna work

[spud]

all ausy fuel comes from temor or however it is spelt. but while most the fuel coming from the same supplyer it will have an effect if it is not bought from bp. cause all the fuel going to the bp servos has a higher profit margin then the others. in theory it can work.

[spud]

the one i got had been forwarded about 6 times. and from the number of people who were on each mail list for each time it was forwarded maens it got to about 7000000 people. assuming it didnt double up too much.

[Gold TX Sleeper]

I work in a servo, and i can guarentee that if BP dropped their prices, we would too. There are two BP's in our area and our fuel prices are fixed according to there's. Our policy is that we will either beat their price or at least match it. They are our major competitors so we try to make sure that we are cheaper than them by checking their prices every couple of hours.
Problem is though - and it's a sad fact, our fuel is absolute shite compared to theirs.

[Gold TX Sleeper]

I forgot to mention that we buy our fuel from caltex, all of it - ULP, LRP, PULP, Deisel but our gas is from Vitalgas.
So our PULP is exactly the same stuff out of the Caltex Vortex bowsers.
Funny thing is though, we have a Caltex literally around the corner from us, and yet we always sell their fuel for less than they do - sometimes at almost 10c cheaper!!! And we bought the stuff off them!?!?!?! Go Figure...