Important to all UK drivers

(I got this in an email, and I agree with it, please cut and paste it into an email and forward to as many people as posible)
We should make a stand, read on and do what it says.
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 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 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 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 whimp 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! 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
If you agree and you plan to forward this message in an email, please tell me by sending it to me or sending me an email at data.uk@ntlworld.com