Tried to create a cartel tonight, or an anecdote to the cartels, the oil cartels.
Guess I failed. I tried to create a cause on Facebook called the Lower Gas Price Cartel (but a better name would probably be the Cartel Against Gas Prices), calling on all Salt Lakeans who would, to join arms, band together, and auction off our consumership, to pledge to all go to whatever gas station offered the lowest gas price come May 7.
The power of collective buying, it works. We've witnessed the buying power of Walmart, haven't we? At times of economic need -- and gasoline prices approaching $4 a gallon qualifies -- we ought well to take advantage of the best tools at our disposal, and this is, indeed, perhaps the best.
The free market, we believe in it, so let's use it. Let's say, "Gas stations, if one of you will step forward and offer us even 25 cents off what we are now seeing around this town, we'll all come to you, en masse You'll have our business, though we have to drive across town and stand in line, we'll all come to you. So, if there is no collusion -- if no one is telling you what to set your price at -- why not take all the business we are offering and have yourself one very profitable day?"
No one setting the prices for them? Then, surely, one should jump at all this business.
So, if someone should want to take up this cause, and form this consumers' cooperative -- a reverse cartel, of sorts -- then do it. Rally the people, rally the fury, and empower the people. Combine our buying power and entice the gas stations to compete.
A cartel being a group of companies or nations banding together to further their joint cause of distributing oil -- raising prices, if you will -- then why not a cartel bringing our cause -- the lowering of prices? Power to the people. Rise up, then, people, if you would not have these high gas prices.
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