By the power of New Links!

As you know, we can sometimes go all environ-mental on here, and today seems like a nice day for it too, so here goes - the New Links Campaign to Reduce UK Petrol Prices™.
Not actually my idea, but taken one of those e-mails you get now and again, but a worthy cause, and worth a read. I dunno who the hell Phil Hollsworth is, if you do a Google search you get this e-mail in slightly different formats for the US, Australian markets etc, but the principle is good, so we support it. Read on!

We are going to hit close to 89p a litre by the summer. Are petrol prices to come down? If they are, then 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. 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 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.

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. Buy your
petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc.

So, boycott BP and Esso, and buy your petrol from someone else. Any environmentalist worth their salt should be avoiding Esso anyway because of campaigns like StopEsso. I'm off out to convert my car to run on my own pi$$. ;)