 Buy Gasoline like eggs
Good Idea.
A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the
grocery store he pays 60 cents a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a
week he normally buys two doze at a time.
One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to 72
cents. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are .76 cents a dozen. When
asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "the price has
gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly."
This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. I checked around for a better
price and all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors
have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been
driven out of business.
The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With
no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors
then have to raise their prices to the grocery stores. And on and on and
on. As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg
trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there.
He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000
dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of
eggs. Then week before Thanksgiving the price of eggs shot up to $1.00 a
dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "cakes and baking
for the holiday." The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking
going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up.
Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking,
baking, etc
happen.
This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a dozen. The
man says "there must be something we can do about the price of eggs." He
starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying
eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs. Finally, the man
suggested only buying what you need. He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home
from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town
started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.
The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in
his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs. Maybe
wouldn't need any all week.
The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge
egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs and would not need any for
at least two weeks. At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying
eggs.
To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that
they could buy the eggs at a lower price. The distributor said, " I don't
have the room for the %$&^*&% eggs even if they were free."
The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the
price of the eggs if the store would start buying again. The grocery store
owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buying
2 or 3 eggs at a time." "Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back
down to the original price, the customers would start buying by the dozen
again."
The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers. They
liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, them chickens just
kept on laying.
Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their eggs. But only a
few cents. The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said,
"When the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start
buying by the dozen."
Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to
slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers.
The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a
higher price than they were selling eggs for.
Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a
while. And them chickens kept on laying.
Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were
throwing away eggs they couldn't sell. The distributors started buying
again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell
them at the lower price. And the customers starting buying by the dozen
again.
Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry. What if everyone
only bought $10.00 worth of gas each time they pulled to the pump. The
dealers tanks would stay semi full all the time. The dealers wouldn't have
room for the gas coming from the huge tank farms. The tank farms wouldn't
have room for the gas coming from the refining plants. And the refining
plants wouldn't have room for the oil being off loaded from the huge
tankers coming from the Middle East.
Just $10.00 each time you buy gas. Don't fill it up. You may have to
stop for gas twice a week but, the price should come down. Think about it.
As an added note...When I buy $10.00 worth of gas,that leaves my tank a
little under half full. The way prices are jumping around, you can buy gas
for $2.65 a gallon and then the next morning it can be $2.15. If you have
your tank full of $2.65 gas you don't have room for the $2.15 gas. You
might not understand the economics of only buying two eggs at a time but,
you can't buy cheaper gas if your tank is full of the high priced stuff.
Also, don't buy anything else at the gas station, no cigarettes, no
bread,milk or chewing gum, don't give them any more of your hard earned
money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come down.. Oh, some
folks may not see this message. Can you afford to print 10 at a time and
pass them out where you buy gas? If you can afford more, you may think of
putting them on windshields at the mall.
Makes sense to me, how about you?
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