Gas Problem Solved; let’s go drilling for more!

With oil at $115 a barrel and gas at $4.15 a gallon immediate gratification is on the minds of many, (especially our Pez….oops I mean Prez) and if by immediate you mean a probable 10-15 year wait before a possibility of a somewhat break in gas prices at the pump then offshore drilling is the answer!! Let’s lift the ban on offshore drilling to suck the yolk out of our planet so we can become an even more unstable egg shell, while polluting our skies to do just that. Great idea! Thanks for lifting the executive ban (http://mpinkeyes.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/president-bush-to-lift-executive-ban-on-offshore-drilling/) now let me run over to Congress and give them my two thumbs up. NOT!! The fact that polls show more Americans in favor of drilling in areas off-limits for decades scares me. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/108121/Majority-Americans-Support-Drilling-OffLimits-Areas.aspx) I’m worried about us…I’m worried that we can regress so easily when a little strain is put on our pocketbooks. Drilling for more to satiate our never ending thirst is not the answer…we are only treating the symptoms here and not curing the disease. Can’t we come up with something better? Oh wait… we have! Alternative fuels! Bicycles! Hybrid Technology! Even our own two feet could get us somewhere…but alas, we’re reticent to walk and quick to run into yet another environmental expunging. Every year since 1981 our ‘just say no’ policy on offshore drilling is renewed by congress. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/18/ST2008061801397.html) What about this year?

America Your Prius is Ready?!

America , your Prius is ready! I didn’t understand the billboard when I saw it, but when I took my own ’05 Prius nicknamed Black Beauty into the dealership for it’s check up, I saw them and at once I understood. There they sat, glistening in the afternoon sun, their green beauty radiating a modern hippie happiness. There were eight of them in a row, standing in salute to the possibility of a greener future. The first one was tricked out; black with black tinted windows, 36 inch rims, black leather and subwoofers…all the features a pimp would want. But there it sat. Waiting, waiting for an owner…all 8 of them waiting. The Prius was ready for America , but was America ready for the Prius?
At only $23,070 MSRP every one of us can be a proud Prius owner. 55 city mpg with 60 hwy mpg sounds pretty good when the average gallon of gas is $3.15, but what about more then just monetary compensation? What about the promise of a greener future? I do have my friends who say, “Chilean Seabass is almost extinct?!? Well, I better get it while I can.” Or “If the oil is gone then our scientist will think of a way for us to get along without it.” But the fact is plain and simple, if our earth is stripped, what are we left with? Nothing. We’re left living on an eggshell which can shatter into a million pieces and become space dust. But I’m not here to ‘egg’strapolate on all the death and destruction from allowing global warming to happen. I’m just here to say; when the Toyota Camry XLE is $25,000 MSRP and the Toyota Camry Hybrid is $25,200 MSRP…call the president he might loan you $200 bucks in his quest to save the planet.