Literally Praying For Gas Price Relief

As I came back into the city yesterday afternoon, my eyes bulged ever so slightly at the sign advertising $3.50 gas at the New Jersey side approach to the Holland Tunnel. NJ usually has prices on the lower side, so that number was a real shock. Prices have been skyrocketing in the last few years and the tide doesn't look like it will be turning anytime soon. Since our leaders in Washington (especially George Bush) haven't done anything to help consumers out, Rocky Twyman is taking matters into his own hands. More specifically, he's getting it to go into G-d's hands.

From The SF Gate:

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."

It isn't that he wants a higher power to strike down those that are integral to the rising prices but for people to pray and keep it simple, whatever that means exactly he doesn't say, only that we need to believe. Although I don't think prayer is the answer to our problem, we could ask ourselves to reduce our consumption and do our part to curb our ridiculous demand on oil. Only then will the oil companies and the oil traders finally begin to be reined in.