Hypothosis To Lower Gas Prices...

[Dark Elf]

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.

The 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..

[Seraphim]

Great Idea!

[karmakaze]

the math does not work.

if you need $20 of gas a week, and you buy $10 twice a week, you have still used the same amount of gas.

if gas stations were filled daily, yeah, it might have an impact. but they are not. usually once or twice a week.

the only way to have an impact on gas prices is to cut out extra driving so you don't use as much gas.

[Hardcoregirl]

Yep, I agree with karmakaze.

I'm about to move 4 miles from my job so I can bike or ride the bus.

Maybe we should start some carpoolin action.

[JaNell]

I agree with Karmakaze and Hardcore.

Plus:
If you make two weekly trips to the pump instead of one, you're actually using more gas than before because you've now added extra driving + one engine start-up + waiting in line (assuming that everyone does this).
This will not drive the price of gas down; it will increase because you're using MORE, plus, if you use a credit card, there will be an additional fee that the station is charged for accepting that extra cc sale, which will end up reflected in the pump price.

Drive LESS and get rid of those gas sucking SUVs and trucks. If you're not hauling something or a farmer, it's just penis waving anyway.

As for the eggs...
Buy a dozen at a time - it's cheaper - but eat only one egg a day or two eggs every other day. Bulk is always better, if none gets wasted. It saves gas for you, cuts on per unit cost to you, and uses less resources for packaging.

[elasticwings]

Drive LESS and get rid of those gas sucking SUVs and trucks. If you're not hauling something or a farmer, it's just penis waving anyway.

Hey, not everybody that waves their penis drives an SUV or a truck. Don't lump me in with those SUV people.

[Dark Elf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah..... I know. that was coppied from another website, and the girl that posted it got the same response and had to respond the same way I am here.... its a good thought though!

[karmakaze]

Yep, I agree with karmakaze.

I agree with Karmakaze and Hardcore.

/me marks this day in my calendar.
wow people are agreeing with me.

[JaNell]

wow people are agreeing with me.

So that Beano stuff really works, then?

[Dark Elf]

LOL! I thought I smelled something the last time I gave him a hug!

[footprintzinthesand]

I kinda doubt they'd lower gas prices much no matter what, at least until a new prez is in office. Since people HAVE to put gas in their tanks unless they're riding a bike/have a hybrid car/walk/what the fuck ever, they have drivers in position to screw whenever and however they want... Even if gas was $10 a gallon, not much alot've people could do unless they quit their jobs, walked to work, rode a bike, etc... The government's probably laughing at the thought, "Haha, like lazy ass Americans would actually go through all of that trouble, they'd rather pay the extra amount...", snorting like pigs as their greasy pockets grow larger each second... but I could be totally wrong, there's no fuckin telling what really goes on behind closed doors with those bastards...

[Dark Elf]

Well said. Thats why I hate them all...... republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Ect........ Its all fluff to keep us distracted from what really goes on.... and we will never know.

[gothic_spleen]

Well said. Thats why I hate them all...... republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Ect........ Its all fluff to keep us distracted from what really goes on.... and we will never know.

so now that Im getting ready to graduate with a political science major....am I one of the evil ones two....LOL...I still dont know what I am....Ill make my own party...any suggestions for names

[Ray+Wendy]

Ill make my own party...any suggestions for names

How about Ecchi?

[Francesca]

Well keeping your tank low saves on the weight you have to haul around.. I'm trying to remember, I think a gallon of milk weighs about 5 pounds.. gas is probably a similar enough density to be the same weight so if I have a 14 gallon tank and never leave it over half full, then that's 7 gallons x 5 pounds, that's 35 pounds I'm not hauling around. Plus if you keep your car cleaned out, that is less you are hauling about..

and on my vehicle (ford ranger pickup) if I speed it can make an extra 30% in my fuel consumption.. if I stay close to or at the speed limit I get better mileage. And if don't peel out when the light turns green and I don't tailgate (so I avoid unnecessary breaking) then the same applies for my city mileage.

That's probably why those depression era seniors drive so slow, they know the value of a dollar.

Francesca

[Dark Elf]

Well said!

[gothic_spleen]

Ill make my own party...any suggestions for names

How about Ecchi?

....the moderate wing of the Ecchi party...has a ring to it