Fuel

Today's rant is all about fuel costs. I am so tired of getting screwed by oil companies. Normally gas is $0.20 a gallon cheaper in Saginaw than in Cheboygan. But lately it's been the same price in Saginaw as Cheboygan. Our dependence on fossil fuels has got to slow down. Tonight the CBS evening news did a piece on school districts and how they are paying double the fuel costs of just a year or two ago, yet their budget is the same. No wonder schools are cutting back on teachers. You can't get you per student money if your students can't get to school.

Corn oil???
So what do we do about this? We need to start a movement toward alternative fuels becoming reality. Did you know a diesel engine can run on corn oil? Yes corn oil, or any kind of vegetable oil even reclaimed from deep fryers. It's called biodiesel and any diesel engine can run on it. So why, with the American farmer rapidly being put out of business, don't we start a movement to produce biodiesel in bulk quantities. After all corn is a crop, it's grown every year so it's a renewable resource. We need to stop our dependency on fossil fuels because the oil cartels have us right where they want us, depending on their product day in and day out.

Church & State

Where are we as a nation headed? What ever happened to "One nation under God..." And "In God we trust"? Why are people trying to take away our Christian heritage? In Texas, a homeless man, yes folks, I said a HOMELESS man, is protesting the statue outside the state legislator depicting the 10 Commandments. WHY? because it offends him. This country was formed on the principals of the Christian religion. In fect, it was a huge reason the colonists separated from England. To not be persecuted for their practice of religion. This is why the separation of church and state was inserted into the constitution, not as an excuse to remove our Christian beliefs from our government.

We, as Americans, and hopefully as Christians, need to rise up against the atheists and any others that are trying to take religion out of the government.