Don't Put All Your Eggs Into A Single Basket

A simple saying isn't it? Don't put all your eggs into a single basket. A saying, that if you think about it, makes sense. To state it simply, if you drop your single basket, all of your eggs will break; therefore, you will have none. It must be a lost peasant's tale, or at the very least, something that no one can interpret or understand.

You'd think that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita would teach the American people to contemplate this simple saying. That is, why put all your energy resources into a single "basket"? A blow to our "energy" basket will result in rapidly increasing fuel costs, and possibly, shortages in the near, as opposed to the distant, future. We've dropped our "basket" and now we're scrambling to find the unbroken eggs.

I wonder how many people living on the cusp of poverty or fixed incomes will be devestated this upcoming winter. Our lack of action to information regarding our dwindling energy resources and global warming could become very costly....a cost measured in lives. Instead of giving oil companies incentives to seek out more oil, and the keys to further destroy the environment, why not give them incentives to develop alternative fuel sources? They, afterall, are businesses striving to stay in business. Put their intellectual energies to good use.

Meanwhile, the politicians on Capital Hill are singing:

A tisket, a tasket
our oil-laden basket
was blown away
one August day
and many line the casket.