Then there’s places like Plano, Denton, Ft. Worth, Houston, Amarillo, Magnolia, Gun Barrel, Cut n’ Shoot, Waxahachie…I could do without.

Second, here’s the thing. In order to operate, the oil companies have been forced to lower their prices so that people don’t simply stay at home. Economics is built around supply and demand. When the demand drops (people drive less, spend less on gasoline), the price must drop to make the product more attractive.

I wasn’t saying that low gas prices were a bad thing, far from it, just that there is a connection between a crumbling economy and lower cost at the pump.

Unfortunately, we won’t see a drop of oil from offshore drilling for 10-12 years. In the same amount of time, we could spend that money concentrating on becoming more reliant on non fossil fuel based energy. Even the White House’s own energy commission acknowledges that offshore drilling won’t solve the problem until 2030. We only have 3% of the world’s oil reserves, yet consume 25% of the available oil. That doesn’t eliminate the problem, it exacerbates the problem.

It’s a disturbing trend- prices went up, people complained, prices went back down — but not to how low they were originally — and everyone’s happy. Expect this trend to continue.

During the 1984 presidential campaign it was said that there is a sign over the door of the Vice-President and President’s office which says, “For Men Only”. The clamor across the country these days demands that this sign be taken down. A question that has been curiously overlooked by the media and those that expound such a view, is the following: “How did that sign get there in the first place?”

The Evolution Approach: Millions of years ago, when the orangutan was pounding his chest and all creatures lived by survival of the fittest, the male apes, being the stronger, forced their way into positions of authority by physically dominating the weaker females. As life progressed upward (the evolutionary claim), early man became more civilized in their behavior. Today we have progressed to the point where strength is no longer the determining factor in the acquiring of leadership positions. By the evolutionary philosophy of behavioral evolution, it is perfectly acceptable for women to hold positions of authority over men.

The Creation Approach: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness (Genesis 1:26). And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him (Genesis 2:18). And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man (Genesis 2:22). But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God (1 Corinthians 11:8,9). But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve (1 Timothy 2:12,13). By the creation philosophy, the position of leadership was given to men by God and represents spiritual symbolism in which men are compared with Christ and women are compared with the church. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church … That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:25-27). The status of today’s society is well described in Isaiah 3:12: As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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