Let’s Not Forget

It’s Memorial Day!! A day to remember all of the people that have serviced this great country! Do we still look at it that way? Or do we look at it as a day off from work. Today, I did one of the American traditions on this day and went to the local parade. Not just any parade but the Doylestown Town parade. I live it Doylestown and it’s a really great place to live. Think of Mayberry with a couple of extra dollars in the pockets of the people that live there. Go to Google and you can see it’s a really nice place.

Ok, so what does this have to do with fuel? A couple of things I think of are how many wars we have been it to protect certain lines of combat and how many of those wars involved protecting oil rich countries. One word, Iraq, but the list is a lot longer. As you know from many other columns, I am very neutral on my politics. If you tried to figure me out it would drive you crazy.

Other things I was thinking of as I watched was the local Fire Department display of its fire trucks burning fuel, and all of the elected officials riding on the back of cars waving and let’s not forget the corvette show of people racing their engines as more than 30 -40 of these things go by. I guess it’s all good fun. A lot of wasted energy for sure but if the crowds weren’t watching the parade what would they be doing, probably burning some other kind of energy.

I guess where this person struggles with everything, is how do you get into the parade? We don’t make corvettes in Doylestown. It is certainly nice to pay our appreciation to the fire department, police department, ambulance department, Lions club, American Legion, Boy scouts, Girl scouts and many other organizations that are involved. Could we do it without the cars and trucks?

Listen, we waste energy at Sokolis too and we also waste energy at the Sokolis household. I don’t like to but it happens. My only thought is could we be more proactive when it comes to these things.

Sokolis is a fuel management and fuel consulting company. We help companies buy and manage their fuel usage as well as helping them reduce the amount of fuel and energy they burn. Please visit us at www.sokolisgroup.com or 267-482-6155. 3 Cheers for America, the Best Country in the World.
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OPEC meets next week about production and output. Let’s see how that goes.