Energy for Peace

During the 1970’s Energy Crisis, my dad’s Buick Electra, with its 455 cubic inch engine, was a luxury machine with a quadraphonic stereo and room enough for seven rowdy teenagers. It was my dream car. It had to be. Our other car, the one I actually drove, was a tiny, tinny Plymouth Cricket, not a sexy machine, but it sipped 35 miles a gallon; the Electra chug-a-lugged at 8 miles a gallon.

By 1974, oil prices had quadrupled to $12 a barrel. The stock market crashed. The highway speed limit dropped to 55 MPH. Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers bought gas on odd-numbered days, and those ending in even numbers bought on even-numbered days. There were long, long lines at gas stations. Stations ran out of fuel. Today, oil doesn’t come cheap, whether it’s in our car tanks, or spewing into God’s green sea.

When Earth Day was conceived in the 70’s, American citizens dreamed of American energy independence through innovation, planning to capture wind, solar, and water currents to create our own energy. Today, we are using our natural resources to lighten our foot upon God’s blue earth. We humans have a holy duty to steward this sacred planet.

You know times are a’changing when even an oilman like George H. W. Bush installs an electric wind-turbine-tower on his oceanside property. Energy independence is national security.

Let’s Pray: Dear God, let Your bountiful wind, sun, and water empower us toward energy independence. Let world peace and prosperity grow through energy innovation and investment, and let the whole world, let Americans, be safer for it. Amen.

Today’s Thought Is: What makes for more world peace?

Soures:
John 14:27 NRS
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.