change is different

I watched ABC News on Saturday evening because NBC was blabbing on about horse racing.  It's not my regular stop but I was impressed with the decent news coverage.  Around the C-block, I was blown away.  A fantastic package on the rising cost of fuel and all the implications.  They did a fair job of showing that it's growing demand around the world on top of stagnant or dwindling supplies that's creating the rise in cost.  They went on to show how it could affect food, transport, where we live, and tied it back to likely inflation.  Finally, right there on the nightly news, confirmation from the media what we all know to be true. 

There are some who still try to blame it on the Democrats, for not allowing drilling in nature reserves or even for crashing the economy after winning a slight majority in 2006 (no chance, this is a Bush economy).  But the reality is that oil is a finite resource and we've come to the crossroads.  The only thing left is to accept it and adapt.  Change the way we eat, we travel, we work, we build, everything.  I know it sounds difficult, but change always is - until you start doing it.  Then you realize it's just different.