Reducing Gas Costs

The best way for us to permanently reduce our gas costs is to reduce petroleum demand worldwide, and the real cost is not just the current fill-up value at the pumps but also what it costs us and the planet in getting and using this energy source.

It makes no sense to go down the additional polluting path of increasing petroleum refineries, and of pumping out and shipping around these large volumes of oil to cause further destruction to our environmental requirements for life.

The more non petroleum electricity we produce for all our power requirements the less the demand for oil sourced power will be. And ensuring local communities have their own power sources will provide a level of protection for these communities against excessive fuel cost increases and any disruption in their power sources from outside influences.

Can you imagine walking around your community without having to breathe in the foul poisonous fumes of vehicle exhausts? We could live like that if our leaders choose to promote it. This lifestyle will help reduce many health problems and help reign in health costs increases also.

We need to remember that our country and world are made up of small communities. All these communities need to be nurtured and protected because together they make up our cities, states and countries. Local community security is not just about guns or borders, as things like local employment and energy are also very important. The best protection for our local community is the protection of all the communities around us as well, and many communities everywhere in the world would benefit from having their own local power sources even if just to provide their drinking and crop irrigating water.

We need leaders who will protect us from threats and lead us intelligently through our lifetime and into the future. That is why we choose leaders, make councils and create governments.

I try to communicate intelligent thoughts for our leaders to consider, like in my open letter to politicians, at sites like:

http://www.myspace.com/josephthepoet

http://rhymster.com/members/Joseph_McNeil/