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has been much discussion about faith-based resources
receiving money to do the government's work. It will
take a miracle for the current administration's policies
to succeed. I believe in miracles. I have
faith, which is a miracle, and, like everyone, I have
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So what's the difference between my belief and my
faith? On a cloudy, humid , hot, early-July day in St.
Louis, I believe it will storm. This is based on
knowledge gained from experience and the TV meteorologist. Faith,
on the other hand accepts God's promises - not money or governmental
excuses for failure.
The present administration apparently believes in a
pseudo-faith-based energy policy when it encourages more and faster
drilling for oil instead of urging conservation. My concern is
not with political policy but with scientific, or belief,
policy.
At the present consumption rate, we have enough oil
in the earth to last 50 to 100 years. New drilling without
conservation will make this limited resource more available, deplete
it sooner and create a short-term windfall for the oil companies.
This is a bad-news, good-news situation.
The bad news is:
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My grandchildren and their families will be
restricted to traveling on foot. |
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The wealthy will be siphoning the dredges from
wrecks in the salvage lot to provide ten more miles of driving
without air-conditioning. |
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Humans will be migratory to find comfortable
climate because heat and air-conditioning will not be available. |
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Coal wars will replace gas wars. |
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Planes and satellites will be coal fired. |
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My grandchildren will wonder why my generation
let this happen. |
The good news is:
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Equality for all people - everyone will be
middleclass because all economies will collapse. |
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Air, water and soil will begin a long process of
self cleansing. |
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No more DWI for national high-ranking public
officials. |
Trickle-down Regan consulted astrologists - that
didn't solve the nation's problems. I urge our present
administration to abandon its pseudo-faith-based approach
smokescreen and find a way to preserve our resources. It should be
obvious to anyone, including a president with a brain like a
jumping bean in an empty barn, that conservation and alternative
energy sources are our hope for supply in the future. A
trickle of oil is good to the last drop - then what?
-- David Jackson
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