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to seeing the other women and sharing any neighborhood news. Neighbors who didn't even know each others names before now have become a closely knit clan of sorts. There is a sense of belonging . Together, they feel safe, and they know that no matter what happens in the future, together, they will survive.

And so we leave our family. Our American family without oil. I believe this story portrays the best case scenario. The truth, I fear, could be much darker. In the past, when countries have collapsed, starving people have even resorted to cannibalism. Few of us can imagine eating a beloved pet, much less eating another human being. However, when there is great desperation and little hope, people can do unimaginable things. We think these things will never happen here, but, who ever thought that America would be financially raped with ever increasing gas prices?

How grim the end of oil will be, how serious and impacting the consequences, no one knows for sure. If we don't find a cheap, renewable, clean form of energy in the very near future, we will suffer, make no mistake about it. Much of the problem is our own carefree attitude. We don't worry about things until they become a major problem. How insane is it to rely on Middle East oil, when we are hated in that area of the world? Every time we buy oil from that part of the world, Bin Laden and his kind are one step closer to bringing America down, perhaps forever!

We should have been addressing the oil problem in the 1970's. Instead we waited, and now it may be too late. There simply are no easy answers, no easy choices. Our lives could very well slip into a third world like existence.

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