Divine Intervention

With the price of crude oil surpassing $143 a barrel, and prices at the pump effecting all phases of life in America and abroad, some people have taken unusual steps to alleviate the financial strain. One group of people, led by Rocky Twyman a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across America. Mr. Twyman has even taken his group to Washington D.C. to the front steps of the embassy of Saudi Arabia, in the hopes that this demonstration will convince that oil rich country to produce 1.2 million barrels of oil a day. "Our people are really suffering through this crisis. 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…If they can just do that for us, than this will help us get through this crisis," Mr. Twyman commented to reporters. "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," Mr. Twyman continued telling reporters. This might be presumptuous of me, but if God wanted us to have cheaper oil, then he would have made it more plentiful. When Christ went from town to town spreading the "word" with his disciples, he wasn't doing it with 93% octane, the man didn't even own a horse. If groups like Mr. Twymans want to make a change in gas prices, I suggest they start with the United States Congress, for they are the ones who have passed legislation that all but denies American oil companies from drilling in the interior and costal shelf of the United States.