Thanks for writing. You should have gotten the email I sent you in response to Dani Liebling’s request. My email is wmblake7@yahoo.com.

If not, the best way to keep current in Suffolk County is to go to the htttp://www.gpsuffolk.org website and sign up for the listserv on the right hand side of the homepage.

The County organization in Suffolk is active, but Babylon is the only place that holds monthly gatherings. We are still transitioning since our regular meeting place closed. I do not have the March meeting place set yet. When I do I will make sure to email you.

peace
Ian

I hope that Obama will talk about the true cost of oil. People in this country are complaining that oil gasoline costs them $4 per gallon. However, oil costs us much more. I think that the cost to the environment, which can be calculated in dollars…for example the cost to clean-up oil spills, the cost of dirty air and the health problems it causes, the costs of hurricanes like Ike and Katrina, the cost of global warming in general. I hope Obama has his people calculate these real costs and average them into the cost per gallon for gasoline. I would imagine gasoline actually costs the average citizen more like $50 a gallon!

Just as an addiction to heroin costs much more than the price of the drugs itself, so addiction to oil costs much more than what we pay at the pump.

What about the cost to our beautiful landscapes; the coastal waters, the pristine Alaskan environment. And what should we do with all of these ridiculous drilling rigs after we have sucked all the oil out of the ground and pumped it up into the atmosphere? What about the cost of removing the drilling machines when they are no longer of use…when all the oil is gone…because one day it will all be gone…that is its nature. Oil is non-renwable. Or do all the fanatical born again christians like Palin not care because they are just hoping for Armageddon soon anyway? The policies of the right wing christians will certainly hurry that along!

OIL IS FOR DINOSAURS…and if we keep using OIL we will become dinosaurs.

We need to invest in the energy of the future….in fact solar and wind power are the energies of the present. They already exist! Lets use them more fully and develop a sustainable infrastructure before the religious right (which does not care about the planet anyway) turn Earth into a living hell.