After hearing Bryant Williams telling us last evening that if you want a hybrid car, or a fuel efficient car, you now have to sign up and wait six to eight months before you can get one.  The American public responds at last in force!  We can thank those who created this mess we are all in for making us change our wasteful habits.  The car and oil industries never, never would have changed.  They would bilk and milk the public forever, if it was up to them.  Hand in hand, they would never have raised fuel efficiency in vehicles.

Now we have the opportunity to make great changes in the country and in the world.  And the thought has crossed my mind that we should not be using oil as a COMMODITY.  We should be using it as a RESOURCE.  Oil is valuable, always was and always will be.  The oil industry and the vehicle manufacturers could have put the earth, and the consumer first, instead of their gluttonous greed for profits.  They will be just fine.  There always will be many, many uses for oil.  Let them charge as much as their needs demand.  But our opportunity now lies in taking power back into our own hands, demanding vehicles that do not need gas for power.  And why should we continue to pollute our air for the sake of corporate profit?  We need the air to breathe. 

 Another thing that gripes me, is that vehicles continue to be made out of heavy steel.  Steel rusts.  Our roads are covered in salt (another environmental headache) in winter and eventually, the salt wins.  No vehicle lasts more than 20 years up here in the North.  I saw a show on "How Its Made" the other day; they are making cellos (musical instruments) out of carbon fiber, etc.  These are lightweight and virtually indestructible.  Why oh why, can't they make vehicles out of lightweight materials that do not rust.  It would take much less power to run a lighter-weight vehicle that a heavy steel one.  I love my truck, but it will not last much longer.  It is 17 years old, and turning into a rust bucket that cannot be saved.

And another thing.  Although I am an Obama supporter, I am a little dismayed by his attempting to put religion into our governmental system.  As if we don't have enough distractions already.  When politics and religion mix, you can be sure of corruption of the religion.  When the worse strikes, the better yields.  Old Norwegian saying.  We don't need government-sponsored religion in the mix.  Please, Barack, don't wade into those muddy waters.