War Against Petroleum

While we are waiting to have in operation alternate sources of energy, we have to fight the petroleum capitalists by slowing down the use of gasoline and petroleum by products. Personally, during the last couple of months I was able to cut back 40% of the gasoline use in my private own vehicle and 16% in the home energy use. My suggestions are as follows:

Automovil use:

1. Only make necessary trips.
2. Plan your trips out so you could do more than one thing when you go out.
3. Keep a moderate speed from 50 to 65 MPH (80 to 110 KPH)
4. Always accelerate slowly.
5. Exercise your body, walk when you can.
6. When you can, use public transportation
7. In my case my car gives me from 19 to 20 miles in the city and from 25 to 26 in the open road. When the times come to get a different car I will look for something with at least five miles per gallon better. The big and luxurious vehicles only makes us more poor and the rich richer.

Energy consumption at home:

1. Do not turn lights on during day time, use the natural light that we already have.
2. Only use needed lights during nights.
3 Minimize the use of all home appliances; irons, air conditioning, electric garage doors, hair blowers and many others.
4. Select food that can be cooked in short periods of time to cut back in the stove's usage.
5. Many vegetables can be eaten raw, use then often.
6. In those places where gets cold, instead of rising the home temperature try to get another set of blankets to sleep and some additional clothing while you in the home.
7. Slow down the use of hot water at home.

These are just few things that I do in my individual battle against the petroleum industry. Each one lives in a different environment and have different needs, though I am sure that each one can prepare a list and be able to economize and to help us win this ballte. If you don't do it for yourself because you don't have the need, then do it for your brother, do it for your friend, do it for your nation.

A place to go

Living in Alaska is a fun ride.

First you need some practice driving on ice
because if you do not, for seven months
you will be a couch potato at home
only looking through the window outside.

Once I went three hundred and fifty miles,
from Anchorage to the northeast I drove
with four grandchildren to see the North Pole
and to see their faces cracking with smiles.

Our adventure up there was very long,
it was fun the pictures with Santa Claus.

Coming back we wanted to see wild life
and went fairly near of Mount Mckinley,
fourteen miles inside among many hills
the snow was falling covering all sites.

There was nothing in sight for a long while
but slippery roads and frozen brooks
then, near us we saw this gigantic moose
with antlers that were reaching to the skies.

It was a trip to talk about with pride.

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Marcos A. Cabrera
7th in the Robert Brewer Poetry Month Challenge

Overflow

There is a lot that the people don't know.

The world keeps up with its eternal glow
without regrets in its fantastic ways,
the wheel of life with its moves is the same
but with every turn seems like we fall below.

The hopes are now a major overflow
and in most cases they end up in hell
though our days are marching into a knell
most actions we posponed for tomorrow.

We are missing so much a healthy dawn
that we can't see the light of a good spawn.

The nations are turning against their own
a big maze seems to be the planet earth
as the wheel turns it keep leaving more dearth
and behind every bust the darkest shadows.

It is time to face the foe with a blow
to take out its guts and to feed our mind,
to see every coin from both of their sides
and then to see what reality shows.

With an open heart the good thoughts will flow.

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Marcos A. Cabrera
6th in the Robert Brewer Poetry Month Challenge