{"id":2219,"date":"2007-08-30T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/surging_for_oil\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:41:26","slug":"surging_for_oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/surging_for_oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Surging For Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I&#8217;ve been wondering if the oil card would increasingly be played as a justification for America&#8217;s continued occupation of Iraq.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/051922.php\">TPM<\/a>, we&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/9466252.html\">another example of it being used<\/a>, this time by the head American honchos over there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nevada Republican, who returned Tuesday from his fourth trip to Iraq, met with U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Iraqi Deputy President Tariq al-Hashimi and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh.<br \/>\n&#8220;To a person, they said there would be genocide, gas prices in the U.S. would rise to eight or nine dollars a gallon, al-Qaida would continue its expansion, and Iran would take over that portion of the world if we leave,&#8221; Porter said Wednesday in a phone interview from Las Vegas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how they came up with the $8 or $9 figure.  I certainly hope Petraeus and Crocker aren&#8217;t sitting around doing economic analysis.  I know oil supplies are tight, but $6\/gallon is quite a price jump.<br \/>\nAt any rate it should be pointed out that we don&#8217;t need 150,000 American troops in Iraq to protect the oil supply, if that&#8217;s our primary objective.  There is middle ground between an all-out &#8220;surge&#8221; and completely abandoning the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/surging_for_oil\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Surging For Oil\"><p>For a while I&#8217;ve been wondering if the oil card would increasingly be played as a justification for America&#8217;s continued occupation of Iraq. Via TPM, we&#8217;ve got another example of it being used, this time by the head American honchos over there: The Nevada Republican, who returned Tuesday from his fourth trip to Iraq, met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}