Sunday is a favorite day of mine.

It’s a beautiful morning this morning.  Blue sky as huge as Montana can provide.  The birds are calling and the little animals are scurrying around doing their business.  From where I sit this morning, I can imagine the Deer, Elk and other wildlife making the most of this morning.

Tomorrow I’ll get back to work on all sorts of projects but Sunday is a day of rest and reflection.  A chance to just goof off and not feel bad about it.  You know, stop and smell the roses.

I’m sure it’s not as relaxing and beautiful in the Gulf right now.  My thoughts and prayers go out to those who are caught up in the mess physically.  I’m also really getting worried that our leaders are not taking this oil spill more seriously.  This is not just a U.S. problem.  This is a global problem.  I would like them to consider what will happen when the hurricanes start taking the oil into our atmosphere.  Has anyone considered the possibility of acid rain? The currents in the oceans are going to take this stuff all around the planet if we don’t get it stopped soon.

It seems unconscionable that the world leaders can’t pull this thing together and get this problem behind us. 

Our planet is hemorrhaging and it is not just some little local problem for the poor folks in Louisiana.  This is a major problem and should be first on every one’s plate. 

Why is our government not accepting and asking for help from other countries who have experience with this kind of problem?  Why are the people who have proposed simple, but effect, clean up answers not being given an opportunity to try their theories and expertise?  Why are those who make their living in the wetlands of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida not being allowed to put down their sand bags and stop the oil from ruining their resource? 

Put the politics and ego’s aside and get this done before it’s too late!

Sitting here on this beautiful sunny calm day in the clean environs of Montana almost makes me feel guilty this Sunday morning when I think about what is happening in the Gulf.  It may make you feel helpless.  However, I think , if we make enough noise about this and hold those in charge accountable, just maybe we can save our planet.

The HOLE is dumping 2 million gallons a day into the reason we are survive on the rock.

Without the oceans we would not be inhabiting this planet.  This is a global problem. 

I would like to pose this question:  If there was an asteroid bearing down on us with no doubt that it was going to hit the planet, don’t you think all the government leaders on the planet would be pulling out all the technical experts and working together to alleviate the problem?  

This oil spill could be devastating to our way of life on this planet.  The global community needs to realise that this is not a little problem.  This problem needs to be alleviated.

Now my Sunday, although it is environmentally beautiful, seems a little less relaxing.

Writing our congressmen and emailing our views to someone who may have some pull and care enough to pass our concerns along may help put pressure on the right people to help with this problem.  Do your part as you see fit.

OK…I guess I’ll mow the lawn.  It’s Sunday, a day of rest, but now I’ve got to do something.

Have a nice day.

John

My friends,

I had a message on facebook yesterday regarding the government and the final line in the message was “I’m really Pissed off!”

I have to tell you my sentiments are starting to run in that direction myself.

Why, in this vast world of technological miracles, can’t we shut that oil down?

Are the leaders of our world so stupid that they don’t realise this is a global problem?   With the amount of oil that is being released on a daily basis with no immediate end in sight, I’m asking, along with a majority of other concerned citizens, why the human race is not rallying to get this thing stopped.  Why are we leaving this up to BP?  

It is not just their problem.  It is OUR problem!  We the human race need the energy.  We have caused this to happen.

It really isn’t the oil companies fault for trying to supply us with the energy and manufacturing needs.  It really isn’t the local gas stations fault for trying to keep us rolling.  It is a tradgedy.  It is an accident.  It was unforseen. OKAY!

All this pontificating about who’s fault it is and the boycotting is foolish in my opinion.   We need that oil now.  We need all the oil we can get.  We need alternatives to the oil.  We are not equipped now to  operate without it.   Maybe we will be in the near future.  Moratoriums on drilling and shouting at the top of our lungs about this catastrophe will not do us any good in the long run.   Do you want to pay 7 to 10 dollars a gallon for gasoline?  Do you want all the products that depend on the oil dirivitives to go sky high in price? Do you even realise how much we depend on the black tar oil and natural gas that is spewing out in the gulf in our everyday lives?

I’m extremely excited about what I saw on the science channel last night about synthetic life.  If you are not aware of the great leap, and yet baby step, molecular science has taken recently, you should make yourself aware.  It is amazing and it could be an answer to the very problems we are having in the gulf and many facets of our lives.  It will take awhile to develope this amazing technology, but, it will be of immense importance as we try to clean up the dirty deeds we have done to our planet.

What I don’t understand is why the governments of the world haven’t rallied, with all their technological know how, to stop this oil spill.   Get all the submarines available and all the top notch techs available and get this thing shut down before we reach the point of no return on this potential global pollution disaster.

If a simple American citizen like myself can have these thoughts, why are the pros not thinking the same things?  Why are they not taking action?  Why would the Federal Government stand in the way of any ideas that may help in the clean up of the already polluted shores of Louisiana?  

Did you see the email circulating about how we could use certain hays and grasses to soak this oil  from the ocean.  If a couple of Bubba’s can come up with a solution like this, why can’t we get action on it?

Throwing oil on a BP station will get us nowhere.  Being political about this will get us nowhere. 

WE NEED LEADERSHIP.  WE NEED ACTION.  WE NEED THOSE WHO ARE IN POWER IN THIS WORLD TO UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH OF A CATASTROPHE THIS COULD TURN OUT TO BE.  WE NEED COOPERATION.  WE NEED UNDERSTANDING AND WE NEED ALL THE TECHNOLOGICAL KNOW HOW OF ANYONE WITH A SOLUTION TO ANY PART OF THIS PROBLEM.  WE NEED IT NOW.  WE NEED IT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.

Okay, I’m off my soap box. 

I would like to recommend that every citizen in the country flood the emails and in boxes of all the representatives and congressman from their districts to put pressure on whoever they need to, to get some real action in the gulf to stop this oil from gushing into the only reason we are on this rock.  Waiting till August for counterdrilling doesn’t seem like an option, given all the oil that is filling the gulf on a daily basis.

If we don’t get action soon, life the way we know it shall change in ways we will not be happy about.

Humanity as a whole can rise to this occasion and get this done.  We can do this.  We shouldn’t wait to let our voices be heard.  This is not a time for politics.  This is a time for action.  Action on a world wide scale.  This is bigger than one little oil company.  This is our children’s future at stake.

Do your best.

John