gas prices

I don't know what other areas of this great country are experiencing, but here where I am gas is up to $2.09 a gallon.

?????

What is going on? Why the monopoly on something all of need on a daily basis? There is nothing I would prefer more than to shut the car in the garage, forget about it until forever, and be able to travel where I need to go by other means. But there are no other means. Anywhere one needs to travel beyond half a dozen miles (now with the weather improving, I will be riding my bike more) is impossible absent a gas-guzzling vehicle. How is that our fair system of capitalism? Where is the spirit of competition all other products and services must maintain? Why does no one provide an alternative to gasoline? Is the American entrepreneurial spirit dead? I firmly believe - as foolish as many will believe this to sound - if I knew all the inner working of the internal combusion engine (the process utilized to make it do what it is intended for) I could create something far superior to this nonsense we have today.

Anything is possible to him who believes.

I hold fast to that credo because I hold fast to the God in heaven who created everything we know and see in our world today. It is possible; it's just not probable with our current crop of non-visionary capitalistic fools who only look at the immediacy of the next dollar in their pocket, rather than the potential for something great to the world. How very, very sad.