What's The Appeal of Conservatism?

[Sami]

There is no need for caution when something is observed to work.
Example: American Conservatives like oil. They make it seem OK to use oil. ---- http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26833 ---- Why? To keep shit the way it is? I don't think so. Maybe they are only trying to fight reality.

Besides, No change eventually leads to forced change. I admit some things can remain as they are, but oil? It's not going to last forever you know.

Oil is only one of many examples.

Whether oil does or doesn't last forever is irrelevant to the political ideology, it may be that economic reliance on oil is impossible to maintain - that doesn't mean they can't have a political stance that wishes it to remain so.