Final!!!

Gas prices put a strain on springtime play lists.
"I don't think I will be going out as much as I would like to ." Said Jerry Green a resident of Lehi. "It is just too expensive when Diesel is over $4 dollars a gallon. That is just to fill the truck, that doesn't include the toys!"
Martha Hammond stated another worry for senior citizens.
"It is ridiculous and outrageous to expect people with a fixed income to have to pay these prices. I am not getting any raises on my social security but I am supposed to pay out more and more. I just can't afford it!" Hammond said.
What is it that is driving up the prices of gas? The excuses are many and varied, ranging from needed repairs on existing refineries; the fact that no new refinery has been allowed to be built in thirty years, and the dependency on foreign oil and where it is located (Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia to name a few).
One quote from a notable businessman has brought a shadow of doubt on all of these claims however.
"If I ever need some extra money to work with all I have to do is raise the price of gas by one or two cents for a month and I have the one or two million that I need."
With that kind of a statement how can the oil companies possibly deny price gouging when their record 11 billion profits over a quarter state a different response? How much more can the American people put up with before they decide to do something about it?
People are on the verge of taking drastic measures into their own hands. Whether that is by means of a simple protest, or an all out lockdown as truckers did for two days around the first of April. What would happen if an entire group of people (lets stick with truckers) decided to shut down for one week? If there were no trucks at all on the road for one week what would the state of affairs be in each state? That time may not be too far off judging from the response of people to the rise in gas prices. Only time will tell if "Big Oil" will listen to the "small voices" that are screaming for relief.


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What if you knew?

Could you imagine what you would feel like if you knew everything that went on in this world? What would you do if you had an absolute knowledge of exactly what every government was doing? was researching? was planning to do? If you had a pure knowledge of this would it alter your feelings toward your own government? I think I can safely say that to some extent there is evil and "Conspiracy" in every single government on the face of this earth. Some perhaps more than others, but the implication is the same and that being that WE ALL HOLD BLAME FOR THE WORLD AS IT IS.
Lets be honest here shall we. Would you trust your only child to go anywhere in this world by themselves? I think I can speak honestly when I say that I for one would not trust mine to the world, and I don't think the majority of the world would either. How would it be if you KNEW that you could trust your child anywhere on this earth, to anybody on this earth, and they would be not only watched over and cared for but raised and nourished as their own child. How would it be to be able to go anywhere in the world and be welcomed with open arms and a laden table?
I think that God looks down on his children right now and WEEPS for this world. There is not a day that goes by that you open the paper to read about war, kidnappings, rape, murder, etc, etc!!!!! How can a loving God NOT weep when his creations treat each other like they do?
"For greater love hath no man than this, that he will lay down his life for another." I know I didn't get it exact, but the gist of the quote is there. People are willing to lay down their lives for their own flesh and blood, but not for a complete stranger. How are we going to feel when we are brought before God who died for us all and asked "What did you do for your neighbor?"
So many useless and pathetic excuses for death and destruction have been, and continue to be used. What is it going to take to finally get people to stand up and take notice of each other? I can think of one time in the history of this world when everyone took notice at once, that was when it was too late and the waters of destruction already started pouring down. What will be the next great thing to make mankind stand up and notice their own great nothingness in this universe? Who knows, maybe this time it will take nothing less than the Sun exploding to show them how stupid and senseless it is to fight and war among themselves.