{"id":189418,"date":"2010-03-31T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/31\/obama-says-drill-baby-drill\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:21:00","slug":"obama-says-drill-baby-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/31\/obama-says-drill-baby-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says, &#8220;Drill, Baby, Drill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img30.imageshack.us\/img30\/6435\/31energygraf01popup2695.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img30.imageshack.us\/img30\/6435\/31energygraf01popup2695.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Audacity of D&#8217;oh!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Once again, Barack Obama decides to cock-punch the base, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/03\/drill-baby-drill.html\">announces a massive expansion of offshore drilling<\/a> that largely echos those of George W. Bush, with the protection of Bristol Bay being the only major change.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/obama-to-give-multibillion-dollar.html\">did this with nuclear power a 1\u00bd months ago<\/a>, so I guess that this is not a surprise, particularly given his lip service to the fraud that is &#8220;clean coal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It appears that part of his goal is to get some Republican support for his climate change bill, but, as was shown in healthcare reform, the Republicans are not good faith actors.<\/p>\n<p>Better to use the recent EPA declaration about C0<sub>2<\/sub> emissions as a harmful emissions as a club, and keep this in your back pocket, because giving away the store upfront results in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> bad policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size The Audacity of D&#8217;oh! Once again, Barack Obama decides to cock-punch the base, and he announces a massive expansion of offshore drilling that largely echos those of George W. Bush, with the protection of Bristol Bay being the only major change. He did this with nuclear power a 1\u00bd months ago, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1135,1020,982,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-energy","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189418"}],"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=189418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}