Got this in an email. It reads sensibly. I wonder if it would have any effect.
Read to the end!!!
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 dozens 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 sells 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 $1.00
a dozen.
Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "cakes and
baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be
a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the
price of eggs goes up.
Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family
cooking, baking, etc. happen.
This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a
dozen. The man says,"there must be something we can do about the
price of eggs".
He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide
to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed
eggs. Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need.
He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at
the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2
or 3 eggs a day.
The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many
eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need
any eggs. Maybe wouldn't need any all week.
The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the
huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not
need any for at least two weeks.
At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs.
To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor
that they could buy the eggs at a lower price. The distributor
said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% 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 buy 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, don't give
them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on
gas, until the prices come down..
** Read this and send it on to as many people as you can!
Read to the end!!!
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 dozens 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 sells 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 $1.00
a dozen.
Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "cakes and
baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be
a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the
price of eggs goes up.
Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family
cooking, baking, etc. happen.
This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a
dozen. The man says,"there must be something we can do about the
price of eggs".
He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide
to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed
eggs. Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need.
He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at
the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2
or 3 eggs a day.
The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many
eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need
any eggs. Maybe wouldn't need any all week.
The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the
huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not
need any for at least two weeks.
At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs.
To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor
that they could buy the eggs at a lower price. The distributor
said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% 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 buy 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, don't give
them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on
gas, until the prices come down..
** Read this and send it on to as many people as you can!