[Vision2020] Gas UP .08 A Gallon

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Dear Troublemaker:

No one really knows when oil will run out totally, or exactly how much can be 
sucked from our dear Mother Earth.  Some predict with super computers and 
more graphs than Dale Courtney can throw at MSD predicting their demise, that 
before we burn all the oil in the ground, the environmental damage will bring 
this energy orgy to a halt faster than the Womens/Mens Temperance Union.  Once 
Florida floods from rising sea levels, suddenly the US Congress will find God in 
alternative energy!  "Oh Canada" has huge oil reserves in sand, whatever that 
means, but it is expensive to extract, though the happy face technology 
wizards may solve the extraction expense problem.

The focus should be on the fact that regardless of how much oil there is, or 
exactly when it will run out, it will run out.  And yes, Mr. Troublemaker, you 
echoed what I have said for years, pondering in my little pea brain, that 
because oil is an important resource, valuable for many products besides gas and 
heating oil, should we not be saving it for the use of future generations?

Future generations?  Oh gee, what does this matter?  As Secretary of the 
Interior under Reagan, James Watt, once said, the second coming is at hand, so we 
need not worry about the environment.  Or we need not worry that perhaps 
future generations will view our current squandering of one of the earth's greatest 
riches as an offense against them?

Why, those ungrateful brats!  After all, future generations will inherit a 
planet that has been subjected to human caused mass extinction on a scale 
comparable to other periods of non-human caused mass extinction over the past few 
billion years, and lots of wonderful new coastline, though it will be very 
recently formed from the advance of the sea destroying all major harbors globally.

Should I go on?  You think I exaggerate?  I'm some environmental extremist?  
At least I don't predict beings on clouds coming out of the sky and saving the 
righteous while the sinners are left behind, like millions of people who 
believe in the second coming...

I'm in hot water now, and it's not from global warming...

I better be quiet.  The faithful seek to strike down the wicked: those who 
worship the earth and betray the kingdom beyond...

Ted Moffett, mini-me troublemaker

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