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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=453065102-24042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Do you buy more gas than you need? If not, then this will
not work. The egg thing might work because they greatly reduced their purchase
of eggs. The gas station/convenience store does not care if you buy one gallon
at a time or a whole tank full. As long as you buy the same number of gallons
over time, they make the same profit. I don't know anyone who buys more than
they need. You change costs by changing habits. The economics of car pooling is
the easiest thing to implement. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=453065102-24042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Caelin on Andrede</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
loch-ruadh-bounces+rjt=softwareinnovation.com@ansteorra.org
[mailto:loch-ruadh-bounces+rjt=softwareinnovation.com@ansteorra.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Robin Mitchell-Mabry<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 21, 2006 23:33
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Elfsea; Loch-Ruadh<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Loch-Ruadh] FW: price of
eggs<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This might actually
work without hurting “Mom & Pop’s.”</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Remember, we still dump
more milk than we can use. I doubt oil companies will dump
oil.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bicycles are also nice.
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HLy
Robin</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">9:29 AM</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> price of eggs</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This is somewhat long, but it does
present another idea about combating the price of gas.</SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Buy Gasoline
like eggs</SPAN></FONT></B> <BR> </P>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
</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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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></DIV></BODY></HTML>