The price of eggs....
I got the following email which I thought was interesting:
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That sounds good in theory but I'm not sure it's practical with prices where they are now. At roughly $3/gal, $10 = a little over 3 gal of gas. I probably use more than that in a single day. That means that, depending on how much is in my tank now and how much driving I have to do, I could potentially be buying gas 3 - 4 times a week. That's $30-$40 a week, about what it costs me to fill up my tank each week now. If prices were down in the mid $2 range, so that your $10 would go further, it might work. Math was never my strong subject so maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way.:shrug01:
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Actually I seriously doubt this would work. Matter of fact, back in the early 80s when the gasoline crisis was taking place, the solution to the long lines at the gas stations was to require a MINIMUM purchase to stop people from pulling in to only guy a couple of gallons to top off their tanks at every opportunity. And the only reason that worked is because the gas stations made it mandatory. In other words, if you only got two gallons of gas, you STILL paid $10 (that was back when gasoline was something like 70 cents per gallon). If it had required the voluntary compliance of the population, it most certainly would have failed.
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Good theory. The oil companies/countries don't need America anymore. China and India, amongst others will take all the oil they can get.:banghead:
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Oil is a non renewable resource. When it is gone, it is gone. If the world does not prepare for that time, we will ALL be in a world of hurt. And the supply is all based on speculation. Many wells have run dry before they thought they would. Suppose they ALL run dry way early? What then? There are a whole slew of weak links in that chain we call "civilization". |
I read somewhere that one of the mideast oil countries (maybe Saudi) is already having to pump huge quantities of water into their wells to force up the remaining oil in order to meet quotas. A sign of the not so distant future? Who knows.:shrug01:
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