Re: Interesting Theory


"Debbi" <daffymom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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his makes a lot of sense~ read to the end!!!



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.
At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs.

And them chickens kept on laying.

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.

Except your analogy is all wrong. You can't stop chickens from laying eggs
and they lay eggs in a seasonal cycle. Oil on the other hand is not
seasonal and all you have to do to shut it off is turn off the pump. If you
shut off the pump it just stays underground. Just buying 10 bucks worth of
gas each time just means you're buying it two or three times as often.
Which actually means you're in the store more often and the retailer has
more opportunities to make additional sales off of you.

The only way to have much of an effect is to do all of those things that
actually cut down on your usage of gas, drive slower, car pool, combine
errand trips, mail bills instead of driving to pay them, shop on the
internet and catalogs instead of driving to local stores, etc. And the big
one, park that gas guzzling SUV and get something more fuel efficient. Or
even more radical, park the car all together and walk or bicycle.

Ms P, who delivered two completed quilts yesterday


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