New fuel boycott on Facebook

meoklmrk91

One of my friends just shared this, could it work, I doubt it, but anyway here it is.

Worth a shot!!
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Haliburton. If you are tired of the petrol prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.
Phillip 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! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance.
We are probably going to hit close to €1.70 a litre by this summer and it might go higher! Want petrol prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy petrol ...
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about €1.60 per litre is cheap. Me too! It is currently €1.68 at SHELL....which is TOPAZ and ESSO for regular unleaded, climbing every week.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of PETROL is TOO CHEAP at €0.87 to €0.99, 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! We can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just 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 this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest companies, ESSO & SHELL...WHICH IS TOPAZ!!!!!
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 SHELL....which is TOPAZ and ESSO petrol buyers. It's really simple to do. Now, don't wimp out at this point - keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this note to 15 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (15 x 10 = 150) ... and those 150 send it to at least ten more (150 x 10 = 1,500)... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over 1.5 MILLION consumers .
If those 1.5 million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 15 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... 150 MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 150 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!
Acting together we can make a difference.
If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. Don't buy from ESSO or SHELL (which in IRELAND is TOPAZ!) UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE €0.99 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

REMEMBER – STARTING MAY 1st NO PETROL FROM ESSO or SHELL ....which is TOPAZ!
(why wait till then, get into the habit by starting now)"

Thank you!

drunkmonkey

Is it that time of the year again:rolleyes:

Guy:Incognito

Is it that time of year again? God they are starting to fly by.

paddy147

Just go out and block the entrances to the various petriol stations and set up a few bin fires too.

abouttobebanned

If stinks of typical Facebook chain letter nonsense. But it could be worthwhile.

Mister Jingles

Was always under the impression that it was not the petrol stations fault for the prices but the government

meoklmrk91

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

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This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Haliburton..............

Good show chaps :rolleyes:

Lando Griffin

Thats a great idea.
Throws bicycle in drain and buys car.

antodeco

If it didn't work in 2005,2006,2007,2008 and 2009, it's not going to work now!

marco_polo

Whereabouts did you say was selling at 1.68 again?, must fill up.

Jimdagym

Marketing guy for apple green is a genius!!!

jimmycrackcorm

Burn their petrol!

drunkmonkey

antodeco wrote: »

If it didn't work in 1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010, and 2011, it's not going to work now!

Fixed that for you;)

That Coca Cola rep is well dead at this stage doubt he gives a Bronson.