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Via Carpetbagger, this is too good to pass up:

Many are talking about the rising gas and energy prices and overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis. Many of the nations most prominent clergy will join Pray Live and others praying Bishop Donald R. Downing, Heart to Heart Ministry, invited Apostle Betty Peebles, Jericho City House of Praise, Juanita Bynum, Bishop C. L. Long, Scripture Cathedral, Pastor Yusef Fletcher, Greater Works International, and Pastor Le Ron Atkinson, The Ecclesia Fellowship, Largo, Maryland and others to join him.

Prayer Power! But, as a bit of a self-styled energy wonk, I have to ask: won’t there be some loss of energy as the power of prayer is converted into unleaded gasoline? For example, some suggest that it takes 1.8 gallons of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol. Do we know for a fact that prayer is more efficient? Or should we just take it on faith?

Perhaps instead we should be giving incentives to automakers who build prayer-powered cars and SUVs. If bumper stickers are any indication, we already know that cars seem to function better when people have God as their co-pilot, so why not use God to drive the whole powertrain?! I think if GM and Ford started experimenting with faith-based transmissions, we’d really be getting somewhere.

Or, instead, we could just have a rational national energy policy.