“Conservation is great, but conservation does not equal growth. To sit out there and say people need to buy less and less heating oil, okay. Buy natural gas furnace, or any number of things, but if this country has always been about: ‘You need heating oil? It’s going to be there. You need gasoline? It’s going to be there.’ The burden is not on you to conserve so that it’s always there!”

— radio host Rush Limbaugh

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