Junk Science: Conservation Nation? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,385064,00.html
Conservation also isn't necessarily a virtue for those consumers who are unfazed by $4 gasoline, but nevertheless vainly choose to conserve to achieve some imagined "greater purpose," such as "saving the planet" or "reducing our dependence on foreign oil." This is, in fact, where conservation becomes, if anything, an anti-virtue. In our modern society, using less gasoline means doing less and, most importantly, it means spending less. It means fewer shopping trips, less eating out, fewer pleasure trips and less employment in those businesses to where you drive. It means fewer cars, pleasure boats and airplanes, and fewer jobs in the industries that manufacture those goods. Using less gasoline means engaging in less economic activity. . Finally, if you think conservation will lead to less oil being used worldwide, think again. China, India and other rapidly developing countries plan to use all the oil they can get. If we don't buy Canadian tar sands oil, India will buy it to fuel their $2,500 Tata cars.
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