June 26th, 2008
Concerned about oil?
» Posted in Post at 11:28 am
I’m not. I’m a firm believer that God will take care of His Church. Frankly, I don’t REALLY believe we have an oil shortage; we’re just short-sighted. There’s PLENTY of oil out there. Sure, the earth’s supply may deplete some day. Maybe not. Certainly not if we don’t drill for it and certainly not before we become addicted to some better fuel alternative.
Water would be good. Garbage, too. Just thinking.
Not long ago, I was 3.5 hours away from home on a Wednesday night at a nursing home. We always meet for dinner with friends across the street at 6PM each Wednesday. We call it “House Church.” I left at 3:30 and hated that I would wind up being a whole hour late at best. I quickly prayed, half-kidding, “Lord, can’t you just get me there quickly??”
Instead of pulling into the drive-way at 7:00, I arrived at 5 minutes until six. NO KIDDING! At one point on the journey, I was on the phone with a friend who confirmed the time that we spoke and that, as far as he could tell, yes, I was going to be late. Part of my trip was through Dallas at rush hour.
I wasn’t late. My wife was amazed. “What are YOU doing home?” she asked as I walked in.
Is this what God intends to do for His kids DESPITE the gas pains at the pump?
Imagine that!
Last weekend, Barbara and I drove to Coppell. Again, our friend was amazed at how quickly we arrived, having just called her from - according to MapQuest - 33 minutes away. This kind of thing happened once before when, while driving a gas-guzzling Jeep Wagoneer, not only did my gas gauge never move but, before I could shout “Jehovah Crude Oil,” I was pulling up at my destination.
Nothing is impossible with God, amen?
A friend of mine recently went online and Googled “oil by-products” and sent me what she found. We only think about how gasoline in our cars affects our lives but think about these other things made with crude oil and how the price of so many OTHER goods will rise accordingly. She wrote, “I have been wondering if women really knew this, would it make a difference in our vote!?!” Here are the “oil by-products” she found:
air conditioners
ammonia
anti-histamines
antiseptics
artificial turf
asphalt
aspirin
balloons
bandages
boats
bottles
bras
bubble gum
butane
cameras
candles
car batteries
car bodies
carpet
cassette tapes
caulking
CDs
chewing gum
cold
combs/brushes
computers
contacts
cortisone
crayons
cream
denture adhesives
deodorant
detergents
dice
dishwashing liquid
dresses
dryers
electric blankets
electrician’s tape
fertilizers
fishing lures
fishing rods
floor wax
footballs
glues
glycerin
golf balls
guitar strings
hair
hair coloring
hair curlers
hearing aids
heart valves
heating oil
house paint
ice chests
ink
insect repellent
insulation
jet fuel
life jackets
linoleum
lip balm
lipstick
loudspeakers
medicines
mops
motor oil
motorcycle helmets
movie film
nail polish
oil filters
paddles
paint brushes
paints
parachutes
paraffin
pens
perfumes
petroleum jelly
plastic chairs
plastic cups
plastic forks
plastic wrap
plastics
plywood adhesives
refrigerators
roller-skate wheels
roofing paper
rubber bands
rubber boots
rubber cement
rubbish bags
running shoes
saccharine
seals
shirts (non-cotton)
shoe polish
shoes
shower curtains
solvents
spectacles
stereos
sweaters
table tennis balls
tape recorders
telephones
tennis rackets
thermos
tights
toilet seats
toners
toothpaste
transparencies
transparent tape
TV cabinets
typewriter/computer ribbons
tires
umbrellas
upholstery
vaporizers
vitamin capsules
volleyballs
water pipes
water skis
wax
wax paper
Anyone who has ever done any rock climbing or hiking knows what shale is. It’s defined as a fine-grained sedimentary rock consisting of compacted and hardened clay, silt, or mud. Shale forms in many distinct layers and splits easily into thin sheets or slabs. I’ve often pulled it apart with my hands or by tapping it with other shale. As a kid growing up in El Paso, I often challenged myself by riding my bicycle up the mountain - a mile high at its peak - or hiking while the shale beneath my feet cracked and slid as if I were walking on ice.
Not long ago, I ordered nearly 2 tons of flat rock to place around our cabin in the woods as a sort of rustic sidewalk. As I handled each rock, I could not help but notice the strong smell of oil coming from the pile and on my gloves. It was VERY obvious that there was oil somewhere in those rocks. I recall thinking, “We can’t squeeze water out if a rock…but how about out of oil?”
Several people have sent me the accompanying eMail with a YouTube video attached. On the video, Newt Gingrich discusses many possible fuel alternatives, among them, Shale Oil. Although this is just one method of generating more oil production, Newt states that there’s an estimated 7 TRILLION tons of petroleum locked up in this potential resource. That’s actually SEVEN TIMES what we are getting from Saudi Arabia in regular oil. Time was when a great deal of the world’s oil was coming from shale. According to Ronald C. Johnson, Chairman of an American Geologist Association, “…petroleum-based crude oil is cheaper to produce today than shale oil because of the additional costs of mining and extracting the energy from oil shale. Because of these higher costs, only a few deposits of oil shale are currently being exploited in China, Brazil, and Estonia. However, with the continuing decline of petroleum supplies, accompanied by increasing costs of petroleum-based products, oil shale presents opportunities for supplying some of the fossil energy needs of the world in the years ahead.”
Watch the video. Pray about it. Do what the Spirit leads you to do.
Every blessig,
Michael Tummillo
A servant of God
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