Drill, Baby Drill??

All of us have been bothered by the BP debacle in the Gulf. It's been, what--six weeks now and still the oil gushes out. It's beginning to touch beach after beach. Fishermen whose families have been fishing these waters for generations are cut off from their livelihoods. Those that own Condos, Hotels, restaurants along the beaches are terrified--and rightly so. And then the heart-breaking pictures of oil-coated birds and turtles, not to speak of all the fish. We have no idea what all of this is doing to our eco-system. What happens when the hurricanes come? We are now told that it may be August before the well is capped or stopped. This may be a moment of truth for us. Maybe technology can't do everything after all. Maybe we must take a long hard look at our dependence on oil--and that is all of us. B P is the culprit--but we, the people have allowed regulations to slip, to refuse to look at our over-dependence on oil--and people who want the gumm-ment to stay out of their lives and now asking: what is the President going to do about this problem? This is not time to make political hay--Republicans or Democrats--it is a time to bond together--we are all affected one way or another by this monumental crisis. One of the best pieces I have read is Jim Wallis' piece, "A Time for Moral Reckoning." And if we are going to pray--we ought to pray for us all.