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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This might actually work without hurting “Mom
& Pop’s.”</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Remember, we still dump more milk than we
can use. I doubt oil companies will dump oil.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bicycles are also nice. </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>HLy Robin</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> hollis
[mailto:hollis@omniport.net] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 20, 2006 </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>9:29 AM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> price of eggs</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>This is somewhat long, but it does
present another idea about combating the price of gas.</span></font></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> Buy Gasoline like eggs</span></font></b>
<br>
</p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> normally buys two
dozen at a time.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
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</span></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> the price of eggs
the store owner says, "the price has gone up and I have to raise my price
accordingly."</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> the huge egg farms.
The small egg farms have been driven out of business.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> eggs each day.
Nothing changed there.</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
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</span></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> and other times when
family cooking, baking, etc</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> happen.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> any all week.</span></b>
</p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> weeks. At the
egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> %$&^*&% eggs
even if they were free."</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> customers would
start buying by the dozen again."</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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.</span></font></b>
<br>
</p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> eggs gets down to
where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> their prices because
the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs
for.</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a
while. And them chickens kept on laying.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> were priced to where
the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price. And the customers
starting buying by the dozen again.</span></b> <br>
</p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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 </span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Middle East</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>.</span></b> </p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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.</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
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</span></b>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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.</span></b> <br>
</p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> 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</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 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</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> gas? If you can
afford more, you may think of putting them on windshields at the mall.</span></b>
<br>
</p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> Makes sense to
me, how about you?</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> Everyone should read
this and send it on!</span></b> </p>
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