Surrendering Super-Power Status...

The End of Gasoline? A New Beginning…


How to get the economy moving again. Imagine! A future in which no one owns a car and cars are only seen in museums....
People will recount tales when gasoline used to cost only $10.00 a gallon...or about the cost of five bars—candy bars becoming the standard of measurement in a new economy. Stories recount when there were people who literally used to think nothing of driving 100 miles in a day. With the obsolescence of cars, cities will undergo a rebirth. More people will spend less time commuting. Schools will improve in the inner cities giving those considered on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder an opportunity to partake of promised equality.

With more and more people gravitating to the cities, roads will fall into disuse, bridges will start to collapse from a lack of maintenance, apartments will gain in popularity. Homes, especially those not near major transportation hubs, will go down in value making them affordable to the Middle Class.

. The horse will make a come back. Hay will be scattered all over the ground. Farmers will have a new crop. Horse manure will be found to be a natural fuel that can be burned on modified gas engines. New cars will be built and designed that eliminate 90% of all the unnecessary weight. Detroit will be back in business. Entire new industries will be born around recycled products. People will not need to travel to malls. The US will start manufacturing again.

People will also use mass transportation fueled by horse manure. Used methane will be recycled preventing heat build up in the atmosphere. The Greenland Ice Cap will get better. Oceans will cool. And tropical diseases will stop moving north. Maintenance crews will find work repairing the roads and the bridges. The economy will improve. Start-up funds will be given to those promising new technology for getting from one place to another. Business will be good. There will be less disease since no conventional fuels will be available for burning. The Middle East will go down hill in a hurry. Eventually, in the course of maybe ten or twenty years, no one will remember where Saudi Arabia is. With the Middle East becoming increasingly irrelevant, there will be no funding for terrorism so we've eliminated a major cause of threats and challenge to our country which is increasingly becoming a separate and distinct market that exists just to feed and cloth its own people..

Because nobody is traveling anywhere, there are more immigration officials to guard the borders and no one comes into the country who does not have our best interests at heart. With less time spent commuting people will spend more time talking to each other.

With government out of despoiling nature in order to get a few more grams of gasoline, there is much less anger expressed at government positions. Tree huggers begin to talk to lumberjacks and find some common ground. Those who were of polarized views are starting to find that they can understand each other's point of view. With no terrorism, there is little need to underwrite an expanded military. The Homeland Security department and forty other departments go out of business. There is no great shedding of tears. Families go out for bike rides more often and get to know each other better. People find that there is less smog, more sunny days. People go out on picnics more often. Another 1,000 applications for Spam are discovered...all because we cut out gasoline. Maybe not such a bad scenario after all.

Les Aaron