[johnydep]

Any one seen this email that was doing the rounds, about 6 months ago?

Subject: Fw: Petrol Prices (this is worth reading)


Those who know me well will know that I don't send nor would have ever recieved a chain letter from me.
Which is why I ask you all to take this seriously. I believe we can make this work and not get stood on by those barstards who run the petrol companies.
Have a read and I'll leave it up to your free will if you want to do something about it.

regards

Gino.



Petrol prices - worth thinking about!

I called the number on the bottom of the email, and it is for real.
This initiative does come from Barry Minster, worth calling and
chatting to him if you need reassurance.

Apparently we are going to hit close to $1.35 a litre by the winter.
If this happens the prices will flow on down to the price of every
thing we buy! Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some
intelligent, united action. 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.

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.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two
biggest oil companies (which now are: BP and Mobil). 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 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 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!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (and
not buy at BP and Mobil) 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 80 cents a LITRE
RANGE
.

It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your
petrol at Shell, Caltex, GAS. or Gull Outlets and drive past BP and
MOBIL Stations.





Barry Minster
State President
Ex Service, Service & Veterans Party
www.esvp.asn.au
13 Ermington Place
Kew 3101
Telephone: 03 9816 9713