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Thursday, May 5 Oil toil and trouble
Had quite a long discussion about politics and the world T pontificated (love that word) quite a bit on oil.. The subject came up while were idling…along with a thousand other cars at a traffic jam caused by a toll booth coming off the interstate.. “They’re not gonna address the issue of oil until it’s too late,” he said shaking his head, “It’s like you wonder how they felt when they cut down the last tree on Easter Island.” This all got me thinking too. One bit of advice I’d been given awhile back that holds true is this…when you’re thinking about whats important give yourself the caption…WILL I CARE ABOUT THIS IN 20 YEARS? Honey in 20 years... I think we will care a whole lot more about there being no oil, then we will about there being no more hard boiled eggs at the salad bar I spent a day on the road watching yuppies drive around in gas guzzling S.U.V.’s with no other passengers in them …watching thousands of cars, waste what must add up to kazillions of gallons of gas idling at toll booths, looked at the black smoked filled sky over Newark and rolled up my windows as the stench of sulfar hit my nose and I wondered… Just when in the hell is this shit gonna hit the fan? Will it be tomorrow? Why isn’t this administration scared about this? Destroying whats left of our rainforests, drilling in the anartic…this is not the answer to the plight we are heading towards. Let’s no even talk about the environment…since some fundamentalists in office today don’t care about 100 years from now as Armageddon will be around way before that.. OH LORD! Let’s just talk about oil. This country wastes a boat of load every second. Why isn’t the production of new cars legislated. You don’t get 45 miles to the gallon? We don’t let you produce the car! What will our lives be like when we fight a true blue, oil crisis? “Commercial airlines will go out of business under the burden of oil shortage and shockingly high prices for starters. You won’t be able to go anywhere,” Tim said…still idling in the traffic jam. Our lives could be suddenly frozen. No Fedex’s will arrive as no planes took off. If you start to think about what our lives will be like when NOT IF, we run out of oil… So why are we waiting to hit the wall. Why aren’t we declaring a crisis of prevention now? Why the hell isn’t all the money put into new cars put into finding fuel alternatives? Honey… I don’t know. Do you?
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