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I received this ridiculous email from a friend today. However, this friend is just learning about what is really going on AND is open to credible sources of information.
I want to explain to her about EPAct 2005 and the effects it's now having on the greedy rise of gas at the pump.
Below is the inane email. Am asking for some input with source links that will help dissuade this friend from the idea that what we do at the pump could make a difference. I want to show this friend the real reasons why we are being fucked over at the pump due to the greedy self-serving asshats at the helm of our nation and those controlling the Senate.
Thanks in advance for your resource links and info. :hi:
The Email:
>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..
>
>**_Everyone should read this and send it on! _**
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