Boycott Shell & BP. Buy SASOL & Engen SPAM eMailer
This is a response to the suggestion of boycotting BP and Shell and
supporting local oil companies like Sasol and Engen that is doing the email rounds (see copy below). Similar concepts have circulated for years and seem to surface simply to disenfranchise people or demonstrate that anything that individuals try is bound to fail. My response to a buddy who forwarded this idea to me went like this……..
Ya,ja ja, this idea of boycotting BP and Shell, fine as it appears at first sight simply won’t work. All of the oil companies share refineries here in South Africa – they are just a part of the same cartel really.
Suggesting I use Sasol really gets my goat as its runs the Worlds biggest single point CO2 pollution site at Secunda! And to be practical please show me one Sasol petrol station in the Western Cape?
So i guess you can count me out. This suggestion is not going to change a damn thing this suggestion. It would be a far better solution if all of the wallies driving SUV’s to work or to drop the kids off at school were to buy a Prius, Fiat 1.3 Multijet diesel or Citroen C2 diesel, all running on less than 5 liters/ 100 ks. That sort of change may hurt the oil companies but deep down I doubt it. (Read more about low fuel consumption cars in South Africa.)
Exxon Mobil is a bigger company than all of the worlds auto companies put together. And that’s just one oil company! Best option would be for all of us to use public transport, to sell our cars and buy a bicycle! But hell will doubtless freeze over first.
Or more likely the icecaps will melt first, no?
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Here is the Boycott Shell Buy SASOL mailer in question:
RAND MERCHANT BANK:
This is about petrol prices and an invitation to join the resistance. By the end of this month petrol prices are set to soar even higher.
If we want the petrol price to come down, we all need to take some intelligent, united action.
Last year there was a "don't buy petrol day"-but the oil companies just laughed at that because they knew that we would "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy petrol.
It was more of an inconvenience to us than a problem to them.
But, whoever thought of the ideas, has come up with a plan that can really work.
READ ON AND JOIN THE ACTION!!
By now you probably thinking petrol priced at about R4.50 is cheap. It is currently at +- R6.00 for regular and unleaded.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations (the bullies like US and Britain) have conditioned us to think that the cost of a liter is cheap at
R 5.00 ,
we need to take aggressive action to teach them that buyers control the marketplace......... not the sellers.
With the price of petrol going up 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 rely on our cars, we just cannot 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 the year, don't purchase any petrol from the two biggest overseas oil companies (which are now one), SHELL and BP...
(Local is Lekka - So buy Sasol / Engen / Excel)
If the overseas companies 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 petrol buyers.
It is really simple to do!
Now, don't wimp out at this point...keep reading, and all will be revealed as to how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this message to 30 people. If each in turn sends it to another 10 people (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least 10 people 300 x 10 = 3000)
And so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people; we will have reached over 3 million consumers!
If those 3 million people get exited and pass this on to 10 friends each then 30 million consumers will have been reached. If it goes one level further, you guessed it three hundred million people!
Again, all you have to do is to send this to 10 people. That's all.
How long will all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to 10 people within one day of receipt, all 300 million people could conceivably
be contacted within the next 8 days! Acting together we can make a difference.
If you're fed up paying too much for petrol, please pass this message on.
COMMENCING NOW DON'T BUY BP /SHELL, go and support SA Brand SASOL,
our currency and economy will be strengthen by 65% in 18 months the capital will stay in SA.
Africa must stop feeding the world giants it must feed itself.
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