I remember the horror of the Jim Jones group  and all those dead people.  Its amazing just how gullible some people are.  I can’t remember how many women fed their children poison and how many committed suicide but the numbers were enough to make the world take note of religious cults afterwards.  Your poem caused me to recall that event very vividly.

The Rev’s poem, that one speaks of the hereafter but it gives signs of hope.  I prefer to think of it that way. 

I live in a small town, no taxi service, no train service and no bus line expect for 1 time each day, 6 in the morning and 9 in the evening.  We own a single car and that car is kept up to run as well as it can be made to run.  That car is the only transportation we have to get my husband to work and at this time it is 15 years old and when purchased used, it had 70,000 miles on it.  It now has almost 200,000 miles on it so subtract 70,000 from 200,000 and you get 130,000 miles over 15 years.  That, my friend, averages 10,000 miles per year put on that car way below the national average.  Now, we did have a second car as I used the one we have now for business I no longer do.  The average on that car was the same, still below the national average as figured on a working vehicle.  If I had public transportation, I would use it and yes, I do know how to walk and I do.  Bicycle, Ive done my share of that as well and would still be doing it if I were able so, don’t think I haven’t done my share of helping out in the area of conservation.  This trip we are taking, we are renting a car as we usually do as it will be more efficient on gasoline than what we drive and, there will be very little driving when we get there as we don’t do a lot of running around for the fun of it. 

We do a lot to prevent the use of extra energy.  My thermastat is kept down in the winter and I have no air conditioning in my home.  We have added all insulation we can to the home and we keep lights off and anything else we can think of to prevent usage and to prevent skyrocketing bills.  I recycle and have all of my life and we compost and have for all of my life.  There is very little waste here in any form.  I vote every election and have never missed a single time, ever.  All trips out are consolidated, we don’t run to the store for a gallon of milk, we go when we have errands, more than one and you should also know that as you know when we go, on the weekends when I have to break away from the chat so we can go.  Anything I wrote into that blog, I do and have done and you should know me by now, I don’t write something that isn’t the truth or that I myself don’t believe in doing.  So, take that and put it into your pipe once again. 

And another big PS, my kids rode bicycles and I never in my life then or now would think of purchasing a car for them to drive at the age of a toddler and, I didn’t purchase them cars as teens either.  They walked where they went or went in groups.  I have done all of the above I wrote into my blog, every damn bit of it.

And, one other thing, when we purchased our home in 1971, we looked into windpower as a souce of electricity to power our home.  That little feature was nipped in the bud by the city who wouldn’t allow us to do it.  Solor power, I use some of that also as I have skylights in our roof and I can tell you they help to warm it up even when I don’t need any heat.  Cooling is done with fans and I know how to put a blanket around me when it’s cold and I have done a lot of computing bundled up in a blanket and more.  If and when the day comes I can do something else for energy I’ll be one of the first in line so don’t think I’m not willing.