Group Asks for Divine Intervention to Ease Oil PricesBy Allison Aldrich and Keriann HopkinsCNSNews.com CorrespondentsJuly 03, 2008(CNSNews.com) - As the price of oil continues to rise, some are turning to God and prayer for an answer to their financial troubles. The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across the country. On Monday, Twyman decided to take his movement from Exxon and Shell stations straight to the steps of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., hoping to encourage the oil-rich country to raise the amount of barrels they release each day from 200,000 to 1.2 million. Twyman, who is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, spent the afternoon outside of the embassy praying and asking passersby to sign his petition for the release of more oil, which he hopes to deliver to the Saudi oil minister. "Our people are really suffering through this crisis," Twyman told Cybercast News Service. "We need the Saudis to release at least 1.2 [million] barrels of oil per day for about the next six months until we can get everything settled in America ... (I)f they can just do that for us, than this will help us get through this crisis."Twyman, who prompted the first national campaign aimed at getting African Americans to become bone marrow donors, has moved on to more active participation to lower gas prices than eliciting the help of God through prayer. "I think we have just entered a new phase. We were in the prayerful phase, but now we're going into a more activist phase, because we feel that whole faith without works is dead," Twyman told reporters.Prayer aside, some argue that there is very little the average consumer can do to influence gas prices. John Neurohr from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, has a different approach to managing the high gas prices. "There is little, if anything, the average person can do to reduce gas prices generally," Neurohr told Cybercast News Service. "What they can do is reduce their personal dependence on gasoline by carpooling and utilizing public transportation."Whether consumers decide to pray more or pump less, it is likely that the big changes will result from incremental steps towards more consumer-friendly oil policies.
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I wonder if this is not just some more of God's judgment on us all---- weather, wars, catastrophes, economic woes, etc.If I feel I sinned, I will not ask for God to let up on me, because I deserve some chastisement. It's better to repent and take the consequences for awhile. But we all go living high off the hog without caring about God and then wanting God to bail us out when we messed up royally.This reminds me of people in church we constantly pray for to get healed---- many (but not all) probably got themselves into their condition to begin with. No wonder we pray and then they die. Then atheists see nothing happening and then come on these boards taunting that God does not exist. No, he's ticked off, and I would not answer prayers either if I were God. Thank God I'm not God, as He is far more merciful than I'd be and why atheists are not a pile of ashes from a lightning bolt yet. But we as a nation disgraced God and that's why it looks like He's not answering or does not exist.
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Group Asks for Divine Intervention to Ease Oil PricesBy Allison Aldrich and Keriann HopkinsCNSNews.com CorrespondentsJuly 03, 2008(CNSNews.com) - As the price of oil continues to rise, some are turning to God and prayer for an answer to their financial troubles. The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across the country. On Monday, Twyman decided to take his movement from Exxon and Shell stations straight to the steps of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., hoping to encourage the oil-rich country to raise the amount of barrels they release each day from 200,000 to 1.2 million. Twyman, who is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, spent the afternoon outside of the embassy praying and asking passersby to sign his petition for the release of more oil, which he hopes to deliver to the Saudi oil minister. "Our people are really suffering through this crisis," Twyman told Cybercast News Service. "We need the Saudis to release at least 1.2 [million] barrels of oil per day for about the next six months until we can get everything settled in America ... (I)f they can just do that for us, than this will help us get through this crisis."Twyman, who prompted the first national campaign aimed at getting African Americans to become bone marrow donors, has moved on to more active participation to lower gas prices than eliciting the help of God through prayer. "I think we have just entered a new phase. We were in the prayerful phase, but now we're going into a more activist phase, because we feel that whole faith without works is dead," Twyman told reporters.Prayer aside, some argue that there is very little the average consumer can do to influence gas prices. John Neurohr from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, has a different approach to managing the high gas prices. "There is little, if anything, the average person can do to reduce gas prices generally," Neurohr told Cybercast News Service. "What they can do is reduce their personal dependence on gasoline by carpooling and utilizing public transportation."Whether consumers decide to pray more or pump less, it is likely that the big changes will result from incremental steps towards more consumer-friendly oil policies.
The problem is with U.S. and not with the Saudi. First thing, the U.S. dollar has lost at least 30% of its value since 2002, and as long as the dollar keeps falling the price of oil will keep going up. The reason why the dollar is falling is that the Federal Reserve keeps printing money from nothing. Those of us who don't need to drive should not do so, but the problem is many of us are addicted to driving, which is not healthy for us or the environment any way. Get ride of your car if you don't have to have one to get where you need to go because you will be force to park your care forever, and no one will want to buy it (except for scrap metal) because the price of gas is going to keep going up and up. The sooner we come to understand that our way of life that we are accustom to is over, the better it will be for us as individuals. It happened to all empire in the past, now it happening to us.
Group Asks for Divine Intervention to Ease Oil PricesBy Allison Aldrich and Keriann HopkinsCNSNews.com CorrespondentsJuly 03, 2008(CNSNews.com) - As the price of oil continues to rise, some are turning to God and prayer for an answer to their financial troubles. The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across the country. On Monday, Twyman decided to take his movement from Exxon and Shell stations straight to the steps of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., hoping to encourage the oil-rich country to raise the amount of barrels they release each day from 200,000 to 1.2 million. Twyman, who is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, spent the afternoon outside of the embassy praying and asking passersby to sign his petition for the release of more oil, which he hopes to deliver to the Saudi oil minister. "Our people are really suffering through this crisis," Twyman told Cybercast News Service. "We need the Saudis to release at least 1.2 [million] barrels of oil per day for about the next six months until we can get everything settled in America ... (I)f they can just do that for us, than this will help us get through this crisis."Twyman, who prompted the first national campaign aimed at getting African Americans to become bone marrow donors, has moved on to more active participation to lower gas prices than eliciting the help of God through prayer. "I think we have just entered a new phase. We were in the prayerful phase, but now we're going into a more activist phase, because we feel that whole faith without works is dead," Twyman told reporters.Prayer aside, some argue that there is very little the average consumer can do to influence gas prices. John Neurohr from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, has a different approach to managing the high gas prices. "There is little, if anything, the average person can do to reduce gas prices generally," Neurohr told Cybercast News Service. "What they can do is reduce their personal dependence on gasoline by carpooling and utilizing public transportation."Whether consumers decide to pray more or pump less, it is likely that the big changes will result from incremental steps towards more consumer-friendly oil policies.
The problem is with U.S. and not with the Saudi. First thing, the U.S. dollar has lost at least 30% of its value since 2002, and as long as the dollar keeps falling the price of oil will keep going up. The reason why the dollar is falling is that the Federal Reserve keeps printing money from nothing. Those of us who don't need to drive should not do so, but the problem is many of us are addicted to driving, which is not healthy for us or the environment any way. Get ride of your car if you don't have to have one to get where you need to go because you will be force to park your care forever, and no one will want to buy it (except for scrap metal) because the price of gas is going to keep going up and up. The sooner we come to understand that our way of life that we are accustom to is over, the better it will be for us as individuals. It happened to all empire in the past, now it happening to us.
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I wonder if this is not just some more of God's judgment on us all---- weather, wars, catastrophes, economic woes, etc.If I feel I sinned, I will not ask for God to let up on me, because I deserve some chastisement. It's better to repent and take the consequences for awhile. But we all go living high off the hog without caring about God and then wanting God to bail us out when we messed up royally.This reminds me of people in church we constantly pray for to get healed---- many (but not all) probably got themselves into their condition to begin with. No wonder we pray and then they die. Then atheists see nothing happening and then come on these boards taunting that God does not exist. No, he's ticked off, and I would not answer prayers either if I were God. Thank God I'm not God, as He is far more merciful than I'd be and why atheists are not a pile of ashes from a lightning bolt yet. But we as a nation disgraced God and that's why it looks like He's not answering or does not exist.
Yes you do have a point, unfortunately many Americans tends not to want to look at its self first (the way of the carnal mind), but they are more likely to point the finger at someone else as the fault. Besides for sins of the people, this nation has committed some of the worse crimes against humanity by the propping up of dictators and despots around the world, and the removing/destroying of democratically elected government, because of America self interest. Martin Luther King once said, America is the greatest purveyor of violence around the world. We are about to reap what we have sown, via the government. In other words, the U.S. government will do to us what it has directly or indirectly been doing to other nations.
I wonder if this is not just some more of God's judgment on us all---- weather, wars, catastrophes, economic woes, etc.If I feel I sinned, I will not ask for God to let up on me, because I deserve some chastisement. It's better to repent and take the consequences for awhile. But we all go living high off the hog without caring about God and then wanting God to bail us out when we messed up royally.This reminds me of people in church we constantly pray for to get healed---- many (but not all) probably got themselves into their condition to begin with. No wonder we pray and then they die. Then atheists see nothing happening and then come on these boards taunting that God does not exist. No, he's ticked off, and I would not answer prayers either if I were God. Thank God I'm not God, as He is far more merciful than I'd be and why atheists are not a pile of ashes from a lightning bolt yet. But we as a nation disgraced God and that's why it looks like He's not answering or does not exist.
Yes you do have a point, unfortunately many Americans tends not to want to look at its self first (the way of the carnal mind), but they are more likely to point the finger at someone else as the fault. Besides for sins of the people, this nation has committed some of the worse crimes against humanity by the propping up of dictators and despots around the world, and the removing/destroying of democratically elected government, because of America self interest. Martin Luther King once said, America is the greatest purveyor of violence around the world. We are about to reap what we have sown, via the government. In other words, the U.S. government will do to us what it has directly or indirectly been doing to other nations.
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