{"id":194996,"date":"2008-08-04T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/pandering-but-politically-useful-i-guess\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:45:00","slug":"pandering-but-politically-useful-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/pandering-but-politically-useful-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandering, but Politically Useful, I Guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/08\/04\/campaign.wrap\/index.html\">calling for releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve<\/a> to push prices down.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it&#8217;s a potent club to use against the offshore drilling advocates, it would push oil prices down immediately, but the fact is that oil prices are going to continue higher, and the strategic reserve will not solve that problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is calling for releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to push prices down. I think that it&#8217;s a potent club to use against the offshore drilling advocates, it would push oil prices down immediately, but the fact is that oil prices are going to continue higher, and the strategic reserve will not solve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194996"}],"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=194996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}