ONE: God was supposed to have created a divine plan before creating anything, so praying is useless. He already decided what he is going to do.

TWO: You think that god cares about gas prices? You would be so self-centered and materialistic to think that god-- the creator of the universe-- is going to intervene so you can fill up your gas-guzzling SUV with cheap fuel. At the same time, god is ignoring children with cancer, starving, AIDS-ridden Africa and other horrors. No-- genocide, starvation, pandemics and all can wait! You're sick of paying for your gluttonous choice in vehicles.

But seriously, for those who think that mass transit is for those poor backwards countries, I suggest to visit Germany or Switzerland, or at least check it on youtube how it works there.

And if you hate the idea of being forced to bike to work, instead of sitting in your comfy car, that's OK, I understand this. I love my car, but for me (and many other people) biking is fun, not a punishment. Try to change your attitude, you might like biking.

C'mon!

Given the amount of human suffering around the world, I'm sure this one's going to the bottom of the pile of prayers to answer.

Almighty God, for You all things are possible. Please intervene economically in Your divine and limitless wisdom to lower oil prices so that we, Your children, will be able to continue in our life of abundance and environmental degradation. It was you, oh Lord, who taught us that we were to have dominion over all the Earth. Oh Lord, please grant us the low gas prices which will enable us to continue to be bad stewards of your Creation. Lord, let it be Your will that we be able to get gas for less than $1.50. Without cheap foreign oil, we may be unable continue be wasteful of the resources entrusted to us, and use oil which might otherwise go to your less fortunate children. God, it was Your divine providence that enabled us to obtain the cheap oil requisite to trace our Manifest Destiny and spread forth vinyl siding and stucco over the woodlands of North America. For without Your bountiful gifts of cheap oil and cheaper land, we would have not been free to escape the forsaken urban environment. Oh Lord, through Your generous gifts, we the unworthy, were able to abandon our brethren minorities to a life of poverty and crime. And oh Lord, in Your infinite wisdom, You set us forth and provided us Hummers when our gas mileage was high, You widened our freeways when they were congested, and You set forth Divine zoning regulation to prohibit our relapse into an efficient urban society. We beseech You, oh God, to enable us, your humble servants, to continue in our American lifestyle. It is not in our nature, oh Lord, to sacrifice and take the unholy bus or the blasphemous subway. Oh Lord, please do not allow us to sink into the sacrilege of a shorter commute and deliver us from the temptation to purchase the pagan, fuel-efficient Prius. Let Your Will be done on Earth as it is in the Pearly-Gated Community in Heaven. Amen.

We weren't going to be able to go on spending 5% more than we produce year after year, and saving nothing. Knowledgable people are merely debating the form of the destroyer -- inflation, and thus a reduced standard of living? Severe recession?

There are huge negatives over and above the energy situation, mostly concerning the (federal, state, local, personal) debt situation. Then there is the demograhpic issue of the approaching old age of the generation with the greatest sense of entitlement in history -- having previously la la la-la-la-la lived for today.

I continue to be shocked that, all things considered, things have gone as well as they have. We need to pray that the negatives don't feed on themselves and make things worse than they will have to be, and that the rest of the world will prosper and pull us along.

Please refrain from wearing lycra to Sunday services.

"People have to walk more, leave those cars at home, and carpool, man. We have to become more practical."

I personally think that the Lord must besmote all those praying for deliverance from the scourge of high gas prices by... destroying their cars with a great big ZOT.

The pandering needs to end. Someone has to tell people to just drive less / use more efficient cars.

Thank you for your recent inquiry. I and all the angels fully understand why you would like higher gas prices, given your massive investments in cars and automotive infrastructure. I believe one of you, a man named Kunstler, has called it "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world."

However, let Me point out that you have exhausted exactly half of the oil resources with which I, in My divine wisdom, endowed the Earth. This is called peak oil, it is escalating into a crisis, and the smarter ones among you are beginning to discuss it and treat it as such.

I therefore recommend that you pray instead for walkable communities, mass transit, bicycle-related infrastructure, and in general a more responsible use of the Earth's resources. I would look more favorably upon such prayers.

Let me add that I am deeply offended by what you have made of my Creation. I gave you one of the most beautiful planets in the universe. All you have given me is a blighted and obsolete automobile landscape and endless oil wars.

Now you are diverting your food supply to make ethanol to fuel your infernal motors at the expense of the world's starving poor, who are just as much a part of my Creation as you are. You make Me sick.

When We heard your latest prayers, all the angels wept.

Thank you for choosing Heaven for your spiritual needs.

Very truly yours,
God