{"id":2254,"date":"2007-11-16T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/god_created_ple\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:25:23","slug":"god_created_ple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/god_created_ple\/","title":{"rendered":"God Created Plenty Of Oil For Us To Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to comedian Rush Limbaugh again on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_111307\/content\/01125104.guest.html\">Tuesday<\/a>.  He was advancing his radical consumerism viewpoint by arguing that we&#8217;ve got an endless supply of oil to burn.  No need to worry about fossil fuels or global warming&#8211;buy a big SUV and be happy.<br \/>\nFirst he pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idINIndia-30467320071113\">a story<\/a> on a United Arab Emirates airliner ordering more airplanes as proof that there&#8217;s plenty of oil.  Why would an Arab country be ordering more aircraft if we we&#8217;re running out of oil?<br \/>\nAn interesting argument, but one you can just as easily turn on its head.  Perhaps the company realizes that with tight oil supplies, it will be uniquely positioned to turn a profit if it has better local access to fuel than international competitors.  Moreover, high energy prices would be a boon to Arab economies (at least in the short term), generating more passenger growth, and account for the &#8220;highly favourable home and regional market dynamics&#8221; rationale cited by the airline.<br \/>\nLimbaugh went on to say this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Probably, you know, the conventional wisdom, &#8220;We&#8217;re running out of oil supplies! Global warming,&#8221; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That stuff is here for a reason. It&#8217;s part of creation. God intended it to be used as we&#8217;re using it, and we&#8217;re using it, and there&#8217;s tons of it out there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Putting aside the question of whether or not God created the oil for us to use, how does that claim address scarcity?  God also created water and food, and we&#8217;ve got plenty of examples of societies running short of those resources.  Just because God may have created something does mean we have infinite supply to consume.  God has never guaranteed $3\/gallon gasoline.  Nature has its limits, whether Limbaugh wants to recognize them or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/god_created_ple\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to God Created Plenty Of Oil For Us To Burn\"><p>I was listening to comedian Rush Limbaugh again on Tuesday. He was advancing his radical consumerism viewpoint by arguing that we&#8217;ve got an endless supply of oil to burn. No need to worry about fossil fuels or global warming&#8211;buy a big SUV and be happy. First he pointed to a story on a United Arab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}