{"id":41,"date":"2007-07-08T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/quick-stop-driving-your-cars-heating-your-home\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:41:13","slug":"quick-stop-driving-your-cars-heating-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/quick-stop-driving-your-cars-heating-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick! Stop Driving Your Cars, Heating Your Home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Brendan Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2007\/07\/04\/1183351291906.html\">said<\/a> on Thursday, oil was a factor in Australia&#8217;s contribution to the unpopular war, as &#8220;energy security&#8221; and stability in the Middle East would be crucial to the nation&#8217;s future.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Does this mean that we are all consuming &#8220;conflict oil&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is, whenever there is a valuable natural resource, there is sometimes conflict. Whether it be by rebel gangs, military invasion or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_title\">legal action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem therefore is not exclusive to diamonds, however, due to diamonds&#8217; immense value and portability, the problem of conflict diamonds has gained the most attention lately in the media, whereas oil still seems accepted as no viable alternative exists at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said on Thursday, oil was a factor in Australia&#8217;s contribution to the unpopular war, as &#8220;energy security&#8221; and stability in the Middle East would be crucial to the nation&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamond-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}