No gas, Freedom, Wyoming, 2008 by Phil Douglis

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11-OCT-2008

No gas, Freedom, Wyoming, 2008

Mormon polygamists established Freedom, near the Idaho state line, in 1879 to escape arrest for polygamy by Idaho police. The town was named for the freedom it gave these early settlers. Today, Freedom is a semi-ghost town. Its gas pump stands empty and abandoned in the winter snow. The small broken sign in the window behind it sums up the current state of Freedom.

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Phil Douglis		19-Oct-2008 19:25
I hope you are right, Carol. The sooner we can convert from gasoline to other forms of energy for our transportation, the better it will be for most of us (the big oil companies, their employees and shareholders, and OPEC excepted.) I saw the white mantle of snow as part and parcel of the closure defined by the tiny crumpled sign in the window.

Carol E Sandgren		19-Oct-2008 18:55
I love how the snow cloaks the pump in a kind of purity of white. One day perhaps we will see many more gas pumps out of service simply from lack of need for the stuff!!

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