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Thank you for oil

By Lindsay Curren | November 23, 2010

Prayer at Thanksgiving

As families gather around Thanksgiving tables to voice the things they're thankful for—usually family, friends, "this time together"—I'll be offering my thanks for oil. Not for the olive oil that might be used to sauté some of our veggies, though I'm thankful for that too. No, I'm talking about petroleum. When we think about oil we mostly see it as gasoline, or lubricant for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: conservation, cooking, food, Nov 2010, offshore drilling, oil spill, peak oil, tar sands, Thanksgiving, unconventional oil

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