{"id":4684,"date":"2006-03-06T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:43:43","slug":"catholic_journa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4684","title":{"rendered":"Catholic journal on environmentalism, gas crisis, gas tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my environmentally-minded friends &#8211; a generally bright, very well-intentioned fellow &#8211; suggested I post an editorial from <strong><em>Commonweal<\/em><\/strong> (a &quot;progressive&quot; Catholic periodical) entitled &quot;Addicted to Oil&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Even though I <strong><u>disagree<\/u><\/strong> with the gist and tone of it, why not?<\/p>\n<p>And the gist is that the Bush proposals for energy devleopment were &quot;timid, unrealistic alternatives for ending a dependency &#8230;&quot; and the only thing that will succeed in ending &quot;America&#8217;s ever-expanding appetite for fossil fuels&quot; is, of course, a higher tax on gasoline. No worries about how that will effect the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the full editorial, pro and con comments welcome: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/article.php?id_article=1521\">Commonweal : Addicted to Oil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my environmentally-minded friends &#8211; a generally bright, very well-intentioned fellow &#8211; suggested I post an editorial from Commonweal (a &quot;progressive&quot; Catholic periodical) entitled &quot;Addicted to Oil&quot;. Even though I disagree with the gist and tone of it, why not? And the gist is that the Bush proposals for energy devleopment were &quot;timid, unrealistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}