{"id":187742,"date":"2011-03-16T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/16\/obama-pulls-another-deepwater-horizon\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:04:00","slug":"obama-pulls-another-deepwater-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/16\/obama-pulls-another-deepwater-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Pulls Another Deepwater Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img443\/9375\/doublefacepalm9496114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img443\/9375\/doublefacepalm9496114.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">S%$# Heads!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Yes, in response to the Japanese nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-03-16\/obama-seeks-to-expand-loan-guarantees-for-reactors-chu-says.html\">doubkling down on more loan guarantees for US nuclear power<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The Obama administration will press ahead with efforts to expand loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors while investigating the failure of Japan\u2019s power plants after an earthquake, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Energy Department is seeking to add $36 billion in loan-guarantee authority to the program\u2019s existing $18.5 billion, Chu said today at a House Energy and Commerce Committee panel hearing. President Barack Obama asked lawmakers to expand the program in his February budget request.<\/p>\n<p>An earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11 crippled Tokyo Electric Power Co.\u2019s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant with explosions, fires and radiation leaks. As Japan tries to avert a meltdown at the plant, Obama and his energy advisers have said U.S. nuclear reactors are safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Un-dirtyword-believable.<\/p>\n<p>These guys never miss a chance to miss a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S%$# Heads! Yes, in response to the Japanese nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, they are doubkling down on more loan guarantees for US nuclear power: The Obama administration will press ahead with efforts to expand loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors while investigating the failure of Japan\u2019s power plants after an earthquake, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163,982,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-power","category-stupid","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}