Eye Opener
In crisis look to the bigness of our God
Filipino jeepney operators can greatly help utilize economically gasoline and crude oil by scheduling alternately their road trip weekly. In Iloilo City alone, there are more than 5,000 jeepneys plying their regular routes daily. About ¾ of the passenger jeepneys ply their trip daily with only few passengers but consume sizeable galoons of crude oil daily. It would seem that there are more jeepneys plying the city routes daily with only half of the passengers taking the daily ride due to scarcity of money. Many scamper to the city during big city events like Dinagyang, celebrities coming to town, religious crusade and other big events at SM City, Gaisano and Robinsons. Most people stay home with soaring food prices, food and oil crisis, high unemployment rate.
Hundreds of gallons of oil will be saved weekly once jeepney operators decide to limit their trip to four times a week instead of seven days. Hundreds of jeepneys ply their route daily with only a few passengers on board and their boundary take home earning is barely enough to feed the family of five. If more than 2,000 units of passenger jeepneys plying the CPU-Ungka route daily will ply their regular route only for three or four days, enough passengers will be hauled and will double the take home pay of drivers instead of plying their routes daily. Besides, hundreds of gallons of gasoline/crude oil will be saved and the oil crisis all over the world will ease a little bit.
Private car owners with three or four units can also help save gas for the country by using only one or two vehicles a day and only when the trip is urgently needed. Car owners in their offices could also help save oil if they only travel in the morning and after office hours in the afternoon.
It was noted by Oil Savers Association that car racing event is the one consuming thousands of gallons of oil daily. If only there is a universal law or even country law limiting car racing not too often, millions of gallons oil will be saved. Think about this United Nations!
Arab and other Muslim countries are very lucky since they control the flow of oil. Only a few Christian nations have oil wells and they could not cope with the hungry vehicle world craving for oil. God probably has a purpose why Arab and Muslim countries have oil wells in their land. God answers prayers. Let's pray that Christian nations will also be given oil fields.
America has oil reserve in Alaska and this great Christian nation is reserving their oil for a reason. America would rather buy oil abroad with their dollar than utilize their oil reserve in Alaska and other places. It's good that the rich Arab and Muslim countries are making their oil available to the world even at $104 a barrel.
With food, oil and environmental world crisis, it is a sign that Jesus Christ is coming soon. Let's not look into the bigness of our problems, but rather look into the bigness of our God. Accept publicly Jesus Christ as your personal saviour, be born again and live like Jesus Christ and eventually you will inherit God's eternal life!