Oh, No! Not Again!
Hello, hello, hello!
Well, school starts for us again the day after tomorrow. Yep, that's right! Summer's officially over, folks. Once you start seeing the kids (and most adults) heading back to class, you know that's it's all she wrote for summer. It was fun, though. It wasn't too hot. The weather was just about right. And the cinema fare at the movies was okay as well. There were a couple of stand out blockbusters (Toy Story 3 and Inception), and many other great movies as well. But now it's all over, and we have to go back to the academic grind known as preparing for college, and for the rest of your life.
I'm sure you've all heard by now that they finally retrieved that failed blow out preventer from the damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and replaced it with a brand new (and, let's hope, stronger) blow out preventer, and that the well is just about sealed. And, wouldn't you know, earlier this past week, there was another mishap in the gulf, this time near Louisiana, when an oil platform caught fire! Luckily, everyone on that platform survived, the fire was put out, and there seem to be nothing leaking from this latest well. But, as I was talking with my family this past weekend, all of us are asking, as, I'm sure, all of you are as well, what's going on? Why did the first oil well explode? Why did this latest oil platform catch fire? And, the most important question of all, could this sort of thing happen again on another oil rig or platform? From what I've been hearing lately, the answer is, quite possibly, yes. And, if it is yes, then what can be done about it so that this horrible disaster doesn't happen again? As usual, nobody seem to have any answers to this last question, but, or course, we young people can, and do, come up with answers. The first answer is to stop drilling off shore for oil (which would make the oil barons very upset) and start thinking about alternative energy. One alternative is to use ethanol fuel made from plant-based products such as corn, which was once used in the early days of the automobile, before the oil barons took over the fuel industry. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of other innovative ideas out there that many people have thought of that have yet to see the light of day, which , I hope, do come to light while we still have a chance to save Mother Earth.
Well, that's all for this week, folks. Until next week, be well, stay well, and remember to help the earthquake victims!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, school starts for us again the day after tomorrow. Yep, that's right! Summer's officially over, folks. Once you start seeing the kids (and most adults) heading back to class, you know that's it's all she wrote for summer. It was fun, though. It wasn't too hot. The weather was just about right. And the cinema fare at the movies was okay as well. There were a couple of stand out blockbusters (Toy Story 3 and Inception), and many other great movies as well. But now it's all over, and we have to go back to the academic grind known as preparing for college, and for the rest of your life.
I'm sure you've all heard by now that they finally retrieved that failed blow out preventer from the damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and replaced it with a brand new (and, let's hope, stronger) blow out preventer, and that the well is just about sealed. And, wouldn't you know, earlier this past week, there was another mishap in the gulf, this time near Louisiana, when an oil platform caught fire! Luckily, everyone on that platform survived, the fire was put out, and there seem to be nothing leaking from this latest well. But, as I was talking with my family this past weekend, all of us are asking, as, I'm sure, all of you are as well, what's going on? Why did the first oil well explode? Why did this latest oil platform catch fire? And, the most important question of all, could this sort of thing happen again on another oil rig or platform? From what I've been hearing lately, the answer is, quite possibly, yes. And, if it is yes, then what can be done about it so that this horrible disaster doesn't happen again? As usual, nobody seem to have any answers to this last question, but, or course, we young people can, and do, come up with answers. The first answer is to stop drilling off shore for oil (which would make the oil barons very upset) and start thinking about alternative energy. One alternative is to use ethanol fuel made from plant-based products such as corn, which was once used in the early days of the automobile, before the oil barons took over the fuel industry. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of other innovative ideas out there that many people have thought of that have yet to see the light of day, which , I hope, do come to light while we still have a chance to save Mother Earth.
Well, that's all for this week, folks. Until next week, be well, stay well, and remember to help the earthquake victims!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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