Buy Gasoline like eggs.... - Page 4

tommykat · 04-20-2006, 09:07 PM

Buy Gasoline like eggs

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 doze 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 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 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 and 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 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 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, no cigarettes, no bread, milk or chewing gum, don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what 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 gas? If you can afford more, you may think of putting them on windshields at the mall.

Makes sense to me, how about you? Everyone should read this and send it on! Then when it works, you can say "hey, I helped bring the price back down!"

RON GRIEP

A thought at least.

04-20-2006, 11:53 PM

Wow. This is an amazingly stupid idea. You're going to use just as much fuel but you're doubling (or more) your trips to the gas station. More opportunities to buy more crap from inside the story. I'd not be surprised one iota to find this stupid chain letter is being distributed by BP themselves.

kregger · 04-20-2006, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Let me know when a car is put out that runs on eggs.

Go Bio-Diesel.

listopencil · 04-20-2006, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by kregger

Go Bio-Diesel.

You know-if I could get an inexpensive car that would run on moonshine, and I were allowed to make moonshine, I would be all over it.

jidar · 04-20-2006, 11:58 PM

That's incredibly stupid to the point that I don't understand how people buy it. You're still using the same amount.

**HemiEd** · 04-21-2006, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

I wouldn't feel too guilty about driving one if you really have a need for it. I have a friend who's a bricklayer that has some F-250 diesel monstrosity so he can move his scaffolding trailer once every two weeks, the rest of the time he's stuck driving the fuel-guzzling bitch.

But Simplex probably isn't too far off when he says 90% of them are status symbols for soccer moms and men who are trying to compensate for other inadequecies.

Yep, your friend needs to find a second form of transportation if he can. We let that Durango set most of the time. We probably only put 4k per year on it.
Makes me Crazy when I see a soccer Mom in a Range Rover yapping on her cell phone. She probably would not know how to put the thing in 4 wheel drive if she needed to.

**morphius** · 04-21-2006, 07:49 AM

I'm supposed to believe that minivan's are better for the enviornment because of their great gas millage compared to and SUV:

Minivans:
Ford Freestar 17/23
Nissan Quest 18/26
Chevy Uplander 17/25
Toyota Siena AWD 17/23 Frnt 19/26

SUV:
Chevy Equinox 18/24
Chevy Tahoe 15/22
Chevy Trailblazer 15/22
Ford Freestyle 20/27
Ford Escape 20/26
Ford Exploreer 15/21
Ford Expedition 14/19
Nissan XTerra 16/22
Nissan Murano 19/24
Nissan Pathfinder 15/21
Toyota Highlander 2WD: 19/25 4WD: 18/24
Toyota 4 Runner 16/21
...

The numbers are not that far as minivan's don't really get good gas milage either.

As someone mentioned, "then don't have more kids then you can afford". I have only one kid, with another due in the next few weeks. It isn't an issue for me. But, hey, while you try to insult me lets just ignore the fact that with having to have all kids in car seats until they are 7 means that if I wanted to take one of my sons friends somewhere with us after the other baby is born, I would need to waste more gas because instead of being able to take them in one vehicle (I don't have an SUV or a Minivan), I now have to take 2. There are tons of situations where that can come up, no car pooling for families with cars to little league...

But hey, as someone said, I'm just stoopid.

dj56dt58 · 04-21-2006, 09:28 AM

Nice concept but it wouldn't work. Eggs spoil, therefore if nobody buys the eggs, they go to waste. They would lower prices to make some money off the eggs rather than have them spoil and bring in no money.

Gas doesn't spoil..the Refinerey's can wait on us as long as we can hold out..which isn't very long.

joesomebody · 04-21-2006, 10:24 AM

Wouldn't I burn more gas by having to drive to the gas station more often? The not buying anything but gas thing was a good idea, but then I have to drive more and go to Wal-mart for my cigarettes... thus using more gas.

I don't like eggs anyway.

ct · 04-21-2006, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by mcan

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Here's a thought. CAR POOL. GET A BIKE. WALK. BUY A CAR THAT GETS BETTER MILEAGE.

The only current solution!! For those that can afford it, go electric, ALL electric.

For me it would make sense. I sold my old Honda Accord, which still got me 23-25 MPG, about a year ago. The interior and electronics were freaking out, but the engine was still solid.

My wife drives a minivan, Pontiac Montana, gets 21 MPG or so. That is the primary family vehicle. I have 3 kids, 1 still in a carseat, and sometimes do need to carry all of them with me, plus the Mrs. as well, so a sedan wasn't a great option, though it was an option. So I went with the mid-size SUV, a Chevy S-10 Blazer, which gets me about 17-18 MPG. I often have to carry stuff around that doesn't fit in a sedan's trunk, so this was equally important in the small SUV or 4-door sedan choice.

I certainly could change our habits with the family trips, and only use the mini-van for all of us. Also, the oldest is nearing 16, and will be driving himself often. So if I switch to a small all electric for myself to and from work, or occasional trips with 4-5 of us, this could work great. I would have plenty of time to plug-in and recharge, so it's not terribly inconvenient for me.

I am seriously considering this, have been since last summer. Cost, however, is a problem. So for now, I'm gonna start biking to/from work at least half the time, and leave the car in the garage. I almost did this last summer, then the prices started coming back down. Sadly, carpool b/n me and the wife is not possible, our schedules do not align to make this possible.

**Skip Towne** · 04-21-2006, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

The Chevy Astro van is rear wheel drive.

They also make it in 4 whell drive but it won't pull a trailer of any kind. The transmission won't take it.

picasso · 04-21-2006, 11:23 AM

Forget about this stupid chain mail crap. Better yet put some damn clamps on oil companies such as Exxon that just gave their CEO that retired a 92 million dollar pension. Yes I know all of you republicans out there will say NO because that is the american way and people that are in those type of positions should get all that they can.
But then maybe everytime that you fill your own tank maybe you will ask yourself "Am I paying for his pension and other pensions of oil giants or is this really what $72 a barrel equates to? Better yet ask your government why countries such as South America only pay 12 cents a gallon. Maybe they are the real training ground of terrorists or there are a bunch of rag heads that love snortin coke.

redbrian · 04-21-2006, 11:39 AM

If a profit can be made from selling eggs at 60 cents a dozen, why didn’t the guy go out and buy some chickens and go into business.

Hell it would be a win/win situation for him, it would provide him with free eggs, an income, fertilizer for his garden and a chicken in the pot.

picasso · 04-21-2006, 12:14 PM

I have the answer to the South American gas price, it's there own!! Does everyone realize that Venezuela's main export is oil, 80%, and that the U.S. is their main consumer? Does everyone realize that their economy has slumped by 10% in the last year due to the U.S. lagging in purchases of oil? Do you think it's because we are being gouged? Don't ya think that at this time when oil prices are rising due to increased fears of transport during our invasion of Iraq and the threat of Iran that it would be a boost to South America that we purchased more oil from them, our neighbor, to compensate for this price gouge?
Can I get an AMEN!!!???

chiefs4me · 04-21-2006, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by HemiEd

Yep, your friend needs to find a second form of transportation if he can. We let that Durango set most of the time. We probably only put 4k per year on it.
Makes me Crazy when I see a soccer Mom in a Range Rover yapping on her cell phone. She probably would not know how to put the thing in 4 wheel drive if she needed to.

04-20-2006, 09:07 PM
tommykat zzzz Kats always Join Date: Mar 2001 Casino cash: $9994925	Buy Gasoline like eggs.... Buy Gasoline like eggs 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 doze 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 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 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 $1.00 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "cakes and baking for the holiday." The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc happen. This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a dozen. The man says "there must be something we can do about the price of eggs." He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs. Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need. He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day. The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs. Maybe wouldn't need any all week. The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs and would not need any for at least two weeks. At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price. The distributor said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^&% 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 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 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, no cigarettes, no bread, milk or chewing gum, don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what 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 gas? If you can afford more, you may think of putting them on windshields at the mall. Makes sense to me, how about you? Everyone should read this and send it on! Then when it works, you can say "hey, I helped bring the price back down!" RON GRIEP A thought at least.
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04-20-2006, 11:53 PM	#46
Phobia Guest Casino cash: $	Wow. This is an amazingly stupid idea. You're going to use just as much fuel but you're doubling (or more) your trips to the gas station. More opportunities to buy more crap from inside the story. I'd not be surprised one iota to find this stupid chain letter is being distributed by BP themselves.
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04-20-2006, 11:58 PM	#49
jidar MVP Join Date: May 2005 Location: a Casino cash: $10004900	That's incredibly stupid to the point that I don't understand how people buy it. You're still using the same amount.
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04-21-2006, 07:49 AM	#51
morphius World's finest morphius Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $5835027	I'm supposed to believe that minivan's are better for the enviornment because of their great gas millage compared to and SUV: Minivans: Ford Freestar 17/23 Nissan Quest 18/26 Chevy Uplander 17/25 Toyota Siena AWD 17/23 Frnt 19/26 SUV: Chevy Equinox 18/24 Chevy Tahoe 15/22 Chevy Trailblazer 15/22 Ford Freestyle 20/27 Ford Escape 20/26 Ford Exploreer 15/21 Ford Expedition 14/19 Nissan XTerra 16/22 Nissan Murano 19/24 Nissan Pathfinder 15/21 Toyota Highlander 2WD: 19/25 4WD: 18/24 Toyota 4 Runner 16/21 ... The numbers are not that far as minivan's don't really get good gas milage either. As someone mentioned, "then don't have more kids then you can afford". I have only one kid, with another due in the next few weeks. It isn't an issue for me. But, hey, while you try to insult me lets just ignore the fact that with having to have all kids in car seats until they are 7 means that if I wanted to take one of my sons friends somewhere with us after the other baby is born, I would need to waste more gas because instead of being able to take them in one vehicle (I don't have an SUV or a Minivan), I now have to take 2. There are tons of situations where that can come up, no car pooling for families with cars to little league... But hey, as someone said, I'm just stoopid.
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04-21-2006, 09:28 AM	#52
dj56dt58 Banned Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Missouri Casino cash: $9960055	Nice concept but it wouldn't work. Eggs spoil, therefore if nobody buys the eggs, they go to waste. They would lower prices to make some money off the eggs rather than have them spoil and bring in no money. Gas doesn't spoil..the Refinerey's can wait on us as long as we can hold out..which isn't very long.
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04-21-2006, 10:24 AM	#53
joesomebody Waiting to be voted off Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Baltimore, MD Casino cash: $9994900	Wouldn't I burn more gas by having to drive to the gas station more often? The not buying anything but gas thing was a good idea, but then I have to drive more and go to Wal-mart for my cigarettes... thus using more gas. I don't like eggs anyway.
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04-21-2006, 11:23 AM	#56
picasso That's a GOOD boy!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Casino cash: $10004900	Forget about this stupid chain mail crap. Better yet put some damn clamps on oil companies such as Exxon that just gave their CEO that retired a 92 million dollar pension. Yes I know all of you republicans out there will say NO because that is the american way and people that are in those type of positions should get all that they can. But then maybe everytime that you fill your own tank maybe you will ask yourself "Am I paying for his pension and other pensions of oil giants or is this really what $72 a barrel equates to? Better yet ask your government why countries such as South America only pay 12 cents a gallon. Maybe they are the real training ground of terrorists or there are a bunch of rag heads that love snortin coke.
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04-21-2006, 11:39 AM	#57
redbrian Veteran Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Kansas City MO Casino cash: $10004900	If a profit can be made from selling eggs at 60 cents a dozen, why didn’t the guy go out and buy some chickens and go into business. Hell it would be a win/win situation for him, it would provide him with free eggs, an income, fertilizer for his garden and a chicken in the pot.
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04-21-2006, 12:14 PM	#58
picasso That's a GOOD boy!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Casino cash: $10004900	I have the answer to the South American gas price, it's there own!! Does everyone realize that Venezuela's main export is oil, 80%, and that the U.S. is their main consumer? Does everyone realize that their economy has slumped by 10% in the last year due to the U.S. lagging in purchases of oil? Do you think it's because we are being gouged? Don't ya think that at this time when oil prices are rising due to increased fears of transport during our invasion of Iraq and the threat of Iran that it would be a boost to South America that we purchased more oil from them, our neighbor, to compensate for this price gouge? Can I get an AMEN!!!???
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