I’ve never been the biggest fan of drive-through windows at all those so-called fast food restaurants.

For one thing, I just don’t have the patience it takes to wait in line for very long and for another, they never seem to get the food to you very fast. If they do, they’ve probably messed it up.

The idea was get your food fast, but it seems to me the wait in those lines keep getting longer and longer each year.

And with the cost of gasoline now, it just seems stupid to sit in your car waiting for your food to arrive when you can go inside and be served just as fast.

The only time drive-through windows are convenient in my mind is when it’s cold outside and a person doesn’t want to leave the warmth of their car.

I think this country could save a lot of fuel by doing away with drive-through windows.

I know its probably not an original idea (I haven’t had one of those in years), but when it comes to talking about America’s dependence on foreign oil I don’t think anything should be left on the table or at the drive-through window at the fast-food restaurant.

And here’s another idea that could save us some fuel. Let’s eliminate Saturday mail delivery. Canada Post doesn’t deliver mail on Saturdays.

Most of what I receive in the mail any more is junk mail anyway so why do I need to receive it six times a week instead of five.

The good thing about the high cost of gasoline this year is that its making many people take a new look at how they do things.

Here’s something kind of neat I found during a visit to Methodist Hospital a week or two ago. In one of the restrooms, they have installed flushless toilets. The hospital claims each flushless toilets saves 44,000 gallons of water a year. If true, multiple that amount by the number of toilets in the hospital and the savings in water must be fantastic.

There’s plenty we can do to conserve resources, and nothing should be sacred.

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