Oil Addiction (The President said so)

140 billion gallons of gas per year.



Maybe it will look better with zero's, instead of the word:



140,000,000,000















Nope; the number is just as depressing. I have to pump about ten gallons a week through those contraptions which stretch across our country from one side to another, and I depend upon that liquid for every facet of my life.



It has been proven by Brazil that alcohol can be produced on a scale necessary to meet a countries needs. Brazil has much fewer cars; they also have much less land, technical knowledge and work and industry forces. We can do this.



Every time I buy gasoline, and every time every other person buys gasoline, they help to finance



1 - Despotic Rulers (In three different continents)



2 - Arms and fighters flowing into Iraq



3 - The International arm of Al Quaida



4 - The groups and countries arrayed against Israel (I am not taking Israel's or the other's side).



5 - Government and business corruption on a vast scale.



At the same time, we are spending and have been spending our national treasure and world standing for the steady supply of this energy.



This has amounted to an invisible subsidy for the oil interests, on top of all the subsidies which are in plain sight.



When the true cost of doing business in the Mid East is figured into the price of a barrel of oil, alcohol comes out cheap.



And the best thing about it out of all the reasons to switch is this - no one can turn the tap off.



They can with oil, and they have before. That was about 32 years ago, and it was when Brazil started to switch to alcohol, and away from gasoline.



It took them almost that whole time to make the switch one hundred percent, which makes me think, if we can send a man to the moon, how soon could we switch? If we really put our minds to it?



Whatever the answer is, it will not be quick enough.

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What can I say?

What can I say, that I have not before?



You are familiar with a lot of my beliefs - perhaps this is what God thought, and instilled in us with Her sense of purpose. Perhaps that is why we incessantly invent religions that end up being misused by people with low moral courage.



And yet, even in religions that are misused, there are usually good things to be learned (and good people that learn those things) - just as there are in science, and nature itself. About the face of God I have no clue - even if we are an experiment by some creature, and our reality nothing more than a bunch of cells in a petri dish it does not deny the existence of the Great Architect, or our own self awareness - and by that self awareness, our uniqueness. Is that a byproduct of our soul, or do we owe the simple fact that we have a soul to that one trait?



The magic is that either way it does not matter.



My most innate knowledge of our reality is this: that it is the birthplace of our soul, and that just as we leave the womb in pain and rebirth, so we shall leave this reality in the same way - in inevitable pain, and inevitable rebirth - never to return to this existence again. That does not deny some tenuous connection, perhaps, with those still present here in this reality.



Just as in the womb, we can never see what lies behind the viel of the belly of God; to my mind, we can never doubt that there is a further reality, one that we can barely imagine being born into. That is one of the reasons that the way we behave and learn is more important than the animal instincts which drive us.

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