Oil and Gas Anonymous- Join Today!

Many people have spoken of our "addiction" to fossil fuels and it appears that our dependence on oil and gas can be likened to an addiction in that we seem to deny that we have problem with respect to the damage that has been done to the environment over the many years due to the use of fossil fuels. It is true that petroleum has given us so much...everything from this keyboard I am typing on to the ability of you to see this blog post. The technology that brought us all of the trappings of modern society was made possible by our use of fossil fuels...but like any drug, there is great harm that can be overshadowed by the great good that it does.

Vicodin relieves pain, but continual use of this wonder drug, that has given life back to countless people, can also cause addiction, damage to the body and brain, and death. So too, with fossil fuels. We have had a wonderful run with this technology, but the time has come for us as a nation and as a world, to start saying goodbye...to admit that we have a problem. That is the first step in any addiction, and this addiction to oil and gas is no different. Once we admit that we have a problem with the continued use of fossil fuels then we can all work toward finding the best alternatives, and putting all efforts into making certain that we can get off these addictive drugs. The recent Gulf oil spill should be a turning point for us. It should demonstrate that going for the "difficult to get at" oil may not be worth it both in monetary and environmental terms. Our futures and future health of this planet should not be dictated to by the oil and gas industry nor by those that seek to make this a "slow transition" or advocate "bridge fuels". That is like telling an alcoholic to "try and drink less". It doesn't work. We have to go cold turkey, meaning that we have to make the hard choice to do whatever it takes to come up with a better idea. And maybe we all need to enroll in OGA...Oil and Gas Anonymous and start doing the 12 Steps....

1. We must admit we are powerless over oil and gas— and that our lives have become unmanageable due to spills, blow outs, and toxic waste.

2. We need to believe that a Power (called alternative energy) is greater than ourselves and could restore us to sanity.

3. We need to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the higher power of alternative energy and seek new sources for energy.

4. We need to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves,and not believe the hype about "bridge fuel" and empty promises of jobs from fossil fuels.

5. Admitted to ourselves, and to other human beings the exact nature of the wrongs that we have perpetuated on the environment and on ourselves due to the use of fossil fuels.

6. We must be entirely ready to have the higher power of alternative energy remove all the defects of character that the oil and gas industry has perpetuated on us.

7. Humbly ask that scientists and industry endeavor to remove our shortcomings of a continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

8. Make a list of every single violation perpetuated by the oil and gas industry and force them to make amends for all of them.

9. Made direct amends to the environment wherever possible, except when to do so would injure it further; reverse the damage of fossil fuels wherever it exists.

10. Take personal inventory to right the wrongs that fossil fuel dependence has created and promptly admit them and change our behavior to sustainable practices.

11. Seek regulations and legislation and improve our conscious contact with politicians to demand that they protect us from oil & gas industry.

12. Having had an Eco awakening as the result of these steps, we will carry this message to other nations until a sustainable world exists.

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