One of the major things I just cannot understand about humanity, and the media, is exemplified by how this so-called 'gas shortage' is being treated. The news is rife with people complaining about how the petroleum industry is 'cheating' people by increasing the price of gasoline and how panicked everyone is, driving around, trying to fill their tanks. Today, there even ran a story about how taxicab drivers are coping with the shortage, by keeping tabs on one another, and how they're being strategic in the fares they pick up. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
What I find phenomenal, especially in light of all the hoo-haw that is (finally) being given to climate change, is how no connection is being made. How the fundamental questions of, "How are we going to cope with this when this REALLY happens, for real, when we run out of gasoline?", or even, "Geez, maybe we should wake up to the reality, and push for change in our reliance, nay, our addiction, to oil?" are being completely and utterly ignored. I suppose this is Postman's postulate on Amusing Ourselves to Death: our inability to see beyond the soundbite, our denial of holistic, integrative knowledge, our choosing to be distracted by the immediate and the concrete and what satisfies us NOW vs. what is of true import, of looking at the big picture, of refusing to be swayed by the latest gadget or gewgaw that is being talked about... sigh... it distresses me at how so very few evangelicals think about these things at all; I am so grateful for the handful that do...
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That's a good point - this is a small indication of what it will be like if we really do run out of gas. It will not be pretty, to be sure.
I was thinking, well, this is reality in so many parts of the world, where you see cars *parked* for blocks, waiting to get gas at the *one* gas station with gas!
A bit more believeable perhaps now, when you hear of people waiting all day to get gas!
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