What is a Liter

Imagine if you will, your grandchildren admiring this piece of classic Americana art they inherited from their parents who inherited it from you. The... more

by JC Findley

Title

What is a Liter

Artist

JC Findley

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Imagine if you will, your grandchildren admiring this piece of classic Americana art they inherited from their parents who inherited it from you. The conversation might go something like this.

Can you imagine back in 2000 cars still ran on fosil fuels? People actually had to pull over and pay for a flammable liquid so they could get from point a to b.... Wars were fought over oil in the ground and people died for what lay beneath the surface of the ground where they were born. I have to say it must have been hard for them back then not having either fission engines or the freedom of the solar grid.

Perhaps this is fiction but technology certainly seems to have a limited life-cycle. While most of us can remember filling up with pumps like these they have outlived their usefulness even now. They sit in front of a deserted service station that is slowly being reclaimed by nature. The price shows about 25 cents a liter so they have been out of service at least as long as the last push to go metric failed in the US. That would be about a buck a gallon so that was LONG ago....

Even now oil based industry is past its prime and this image serves as a great reminder to be green as much as possible and perhaps save our world for the fictional grandchildren I mentioned above.

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May 21st, 2012