Dear Pak Domeng, I am agree, it is really an inspired article. If we can do it together why not? But like usual we always need a leader to start something.
Regards, Lies Sudianti 08170707770 On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Domingo L. Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very logical Mbak Lies/Mark. > > We can make a campaign for this through Profec/Filindo. > > What do you think? > > Who knows this logical strategy also might work also on oil/petrol. > > Cheers > > > * > ------------------------------ > * > > *DOMINGO LAXAMANA MANUEL > ***Contacts: Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Mobile: +62812-110-9268 (Roaming) > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: Chippy Orendain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:40:29 PM > Subject: Nice Logic - It May work !!! > > > *Nice Logic - It May work !!* > > A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the Kirana > store he pays Rs. 12 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 Rs. 16. The next time he buys groceries, eggs > are Rs. 22 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. He 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 Diwali the price of eggs shot up to Rs. 40 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 Rs. 60 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 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 but the egg > farmers liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, those chickens > just kept on laying. Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their > eggs. But only a few paisa. > > 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 those 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 Rs 200.00 worth of Petrol each time they > pulled to the pump? The dealer's tanks would stay semi full all the time. > The dealers wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the huge tanks. The > tank farms wouldn't have room for the petrol 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 oil fiends. > > Just Rs 200.00 each time you buy gas. *Don't fill up the tank of your car*. > You may have to stop for gas twice a week, but the price should come down. > > Think about it. > > > Also, don't buy anything else at the fuel station; don't give them any more > of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come > down..." > > ...just think of this concept for a while....... ......... ...please pass > this concept around....reaching out to the masses ...the world ..... let us > put an end to oil rich countries fleecing the poor and developing countries > ….. > > > > > > > > >
