This past weekend my wife and I moved to Marietta and had a bear of time finding gas on Saturday evening to fill up the moving truck before we dropped it off. I told this story to the children to see if they had any ideas of how we might be able to save gasoline. Here are some of their responses:
-We could use horse poop. (I think this meant methane?)
-We should just get more out of the ground.
-Saltwater could work.
-We should become scientist and make some more gas.
-We could get some of the oil out of the sewers.
-Fire has gas in it, let's just use that.
Then I asked them what happens if we run out completely. This is what they had to say:
-Ride a horse.
-Ride your bike to school.
-Build a car that runs on water.
-Let's ride in the old trains that they used before that had all of the fire in them.
-Let's invent an engine to go in a car that will run without gas. (This is the same young man that had the scientist idea before)
And my favorite once again:
-Let's just move to Mexico, China, or Canada where they have gas.
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