Yes, gas prices are high, but have you ever stopped to ask, “What can I do about it?” Probably not. Religion – which has a long track record of solving the world’s problems – is about to solve yet another problem through the power of prayer. That’s right: pray for lower gas prices. Or, at least, that’s what some people seem to think:
At a Shell gas station in Washington, Rocky Twyman and an unusual group of activists were mad as hell about soaring fuel prices.
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“Someone’s making a lot of money and it’s really, really wrong,” added Twyman, who founded the Prayer at the Pump movement last week to seek help from a higher power to bring down fuel prices, because the powers in Washington haven’t.The half-dozen activists — Twyman, a former Miss Washington DC, the owner of a small construction company and two volunteers at a local soup kitchen — joined hands, bowed their heads and intoned a heartfelt prayer.
“Lord, come down in a mighty way and strengthen us so that we can bring down these high gas prices,” Twyman said to a chorus of “amens”.
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“We’ll have lower gas prices, we’ll have lower gas prices…” they sang.At the weekend, Twyman had led a group of around 200 people in prayer at pumps in San Francisco, where gas is touching the four-dollars-a-gallon mark.
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[ via the Reasonable Doubts podcast ]
gas prices suck these days just yesterday i was paying for gas and it was 40.00 for a tank
gas prices suck im going to pull my hair out
$40 a tank, for what? Filling up your moped?? It costs me $100 to fill my Toyota Tundra!
Try $153.00 for my husbands Dodge diesel Truck. He almost cried, we are paying a monthly fee for a truck we can’t afford the gas to run it. He can’t afford to go to work, when there is work, it’s insane…
I was talking to a friend that was complaining about the high gas prices. He was saying that we go to work so we can put gas in our car to get to work. The funny thing is that he works at a gas station.
The problem is that all we are doing is voicing our concern instead of taking action. Something has to be done about it, and the politicians are ignoring our plight. When you guys are ready to stand up and do something, then we may see lower prices.