Meditation and Prayer Is All That's Left

The oil-soaked birds struggle in vain, as they die a slow death in horrible pain. For us, their lives they have helplessly given, so that cars fueled by gas can be so arrogantly driven.

 I'm not trying to bum people out, although I don't know how you can keep from being bummed after seeing pictures like this. I just don't want you to forget. The leak is not fixed. It's still dumping a million gallons of oil into the Gulf every day, non-stop.
I have talked to a few people in the oil business and they don't much care about the birds and marine life. They do care, however, about the people out of work from the exploratory wells Obama shut down. Out of all of the hundreds of wells in the Gulf, we're talking about 33 wells. That's all, just 33 exploratory wells. Well, I say, waa waa! You had better start looking for work in another field, or get a job on a rig that's already up and running. I know that sounds flippant, but that's the kind of language BP chief executive Tony Hayward understands.
I have a bunch of why's. Why, as a civilized populous, do we allow a company to drill thousands of feet below the ocean floor with no back-up plan to fix a problem? Should we allow people to continue to do this? What can we do to stop it? Why aren't our representatives representing our best interests?
Let's be realistic. This company and all of it's contractors have destroyed a good portion of the Gulf Coast for at least a generation. Depending on the weather patterns, it could end up destroying the entire Gulf and beyond. Because it's not over! It still gushes on.
I cry every time I see an oil-coated bird. Why aren't there people staged in areas where oil landfall is imminent, shooing away the birds? That would probably save some of them. Birds won't land where there is a ruckus.
If the idea of converting automobiles to ethanol is not realistic, because it would cost a few hundred dollars to convert your vehicle, then let's convert everything else, as a friend of mine suggested, and just have personal automobiles run on gasoline.
I'm headed to the beach tomorrow. Port Aransas TX. I won't see any evidence of oil there. And so I will thank God and the driving Source Energy of this planet. I will ask Him/Source to forgive those who have sullied the waters. And ask that He/Source heal the ocean, birds and sea life. And open the eyes of those ignorant and greedy so that they may stop this hole from hell from vomiting gas and sludge into the ocean, onto the shores and marshes of our coast.
CONSIDER ALL FORMS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY!!
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