{"id":472,"date":"2005-09-27T17:13:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T21:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2005-09-27T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T19:17:05","slug":"conservativism-conservationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Conservativism != Conservationism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines01\/0502-01.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/nm\/20050926\/2005_09_23t125046_450x370_us_cheney.jpg?x=380&#038;y=312&#038;sig=yWJ8cmz35nyCmHOcMlXDIg--\" alt=\"Cheney\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.&#8221;<br \/>  &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines01\/0502-01.htm\"><em>Dick Cheney, 2001<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002522966_katbush27.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20050927\/capt.txsw10309271731.bush__txsw103.jpg?x=380&#038;y=290&#038;sig=VCjGlCd9Kcir3FbhZeNesg--\" alt=\"Bush\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If it makes sense for the citizen out there to curtail nonessential travel, it darn sure makes sense for federal employees.  We can encourage employees to car-pool or use mass transit, and we can shift peak electricity use to off-peak hours. There&#8217;s ways for the federal government to lead when it comes to conservation.&#8221;<br \/>  &#8212; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002522966_katbush27.html\">George W. Bush, 2005<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t blame me<\/em> if the <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/dn\/view\/0,1249,615153302,00.html\">gas tanks run dry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-092705brown_lat,0,5530667.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">don&#8217;t blame the horse whisperer<\/a> if things went bad in Louisiana.  Because it was everyone else&#8217;s fault <em>but<\/em> FEMA&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush and Cheney, on conservation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}