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Pray-in at S.F. gas station asks God to lower prices
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 05:53
by Aurora
Peak Oil News - 27/04/08
Rocky Twyman has a radical solution for surging gasoline prices: prayer.
Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San Francisco Chevron station on Friday, asking God for cheaper gas. He did the same thing in the nation's Capitol on Wednesday, with volunteers from a soup kitchen joining in. Today he will lead members of an Oakland church in prayer.
Yes, it's come to that.
"God is the only one we can turn to at this point," said Twyman, 59. "Our leaders don't seem to be able to do anything about it. The prices keep soaring and soaring."
Gas prices have been driven relentlessly higher this year by the bull market for crude oil, gasoline's main ingredient. A gallon of regular now costs $3.89, on average, in California, while the national average has hit $3.58.
To solve the problem, Twyman isn't begging the Lord for any specific act of intervention. He is not asking God to make OPEC pump more oil. Nor is he praying for all the speculative investors to be purged from the New York Mercantile Exchange, where crude oil is traded.
Instead, he says anyone who wants to follow his example should keep it simple.
"God, deliver us from these high gas prices," Twyman said. "That's all they have to say."
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$3.89/Gallon? At ?1.17/L in the UK, perhaps it's time we all got down on out knees and recited a few novena's.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 11:31
by goslow
Actually sounds like he already has the answer!
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 11:43
by RenewableCandy
goslow wrote:Actually sounds like he already has the answer!
Was that the one in which God said "Go forth and muliply"
??
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 14:05
by goslow
RenewableCandy wrote:
Was that the one in which God said "Go forth and muliply"
??
No, where he talks about car pooling and stuff!!!
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 14:42
by Andy Hunt
God will probably solve it by removing gasoline from the market completely.
Then there will be no high prices, because there won't be any prices.
All things are possible . . . be careful what you pray for.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 15:42
by goslow
Andy Hunt wrote:
All things are possible . . . be careful what you pray for.
Yep, I was thinking that too!
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 20:07
by nepenthean
a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant
= jackass
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 21:41
by Kentucky Fried Panda
I'm an atheist, it's a non-profit organisation.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 22:58
by kenneal - lagger
Andy Hunt wrote:........ All things are possible . . .
Sensible sized cars? On second thoughts, you'd require sensible sized people to fit in them!!
What ever happened to the seven deadly sins in the ultra right wing Christian US and avarice, gluttony and greed?
Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 07:01
by Aurora
kenneal wrote:Andy Hunt wrote:........ All things are possible . . .
Sensible sized cars? On second thoughts, you'd require sensible sized people to fit in them!!
What ever happened to the seven deadly sins in the ultra right wing Christian US and avarice, gluttony and greed?
'They'll get my ve-hicle when they pry it from my cold dead body'
Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 08:20
by Andy Hunt
Haggis wrote:I'm an atheist, it's a non-profit organisation.
Non-prophet?
