No offense to my bud parley but...............

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 pr ice 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 change d 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 %$&^*&am p;% 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 wort h 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..