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| Praying for Lower Gas Prices |
| 2008-05-31 |
| The price of regular at a Shell gas station in Petworth gleamed defiantly in the midday sun: $3.91 a gallon. But unlike the customers rolling up to the station's pumps this week, resigned to the fact that their wallets were about to take a beating, Rocky Twyman and company had a plan to bring that number tumbling down. They would ask God to do it. "Our pockets are empty, but we're going to hold on to God!" Twyman, a community organizer from Rockville(MD), said as he and seven other people formed a semicircle, held hands and sang, pleading for divine intervention to lower fuel prices. It was the latest demonstration by Twyman's movement, Pray at the Pump, which began in April. Since then, he has held group prayers at gas stations as far away as San Francisco, garnering international media attention and even claiming success in at least a couple of cases. Some would say the proof of whether Twyman has the ear of the Almighty is in the result. On the first day of the movement, April 23, the national average price of a gallon of unleaded was $3.53, according to AAA. As of yesterday, it was $3.96. Proving once again that God does not perform according to the WaPo timetable. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 Actually, RJ, God would turn ZPE extraction mode on and Soddies could drink oil then. Who knows, maybe he did, but we may be a bit dense to get it work... in the industrial scale, that is, not just a handful of prototypes that show minute results but have scalability issues. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-05-31 15:21 |
| #4 Seriously, If the GOD (Judeao/Christian) Existed, Muslims would all be dead as "Unbelievers" their lands(And oil beneath) the propety of whichever Jew/Christian wanted them. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-05-31 14:19 |
| #3 The Church of Green says thou hast violated Gaia and thou must supplicate thou Urban Assault Vehicle and big screen TV to purge your sins. These are the |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-31 10:17 |
| #2 Gasser Nster Our father, which art in Houston, gallons we need same; thy tanker come; thy tanks be one, in Dothan as it is in Houston. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our other loss leaders, as we forgive them that hammer our gascaps. And lead us not into Segways; but deliver us from walking. [For gas in the wagon, is the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.] Supplicants start their engines. VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-05-31 09:25 |
| #1 Speaking as a fully paid up athiest, were God involved in this then I am sure he would be concerned with more important things like the (short, medium and long term) consequences of dependence on energy from sources controlled by 'unbelievers' and the massive funding it provides to them. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-05-31 07:21 |