{"id":2317,"date":"2008-06-18T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/drilling_our_wa_2\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T16:14:52","slug":"drilling_our_wa_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/06\/drilling_our_wa_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilling Our Way Out Of The Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was not at all surprised to see Senator McCain flip-flop with yesterday&#8217;s announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2008\/06\/17\/mccain_presses_for_us_drilling\/\">he now opposes the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling<\/a>.  I expect more politicians to follow this path as public pressure to do <em>something<\/em> about the energy crisis builds.  A majority of Americans will apparently tolerate being in Iraq forever or skyrocketing health care costs (as long as their employer continues to pay for insurance), but they will <em>not<\/em> tolerate a $1+ increase in the cost of a gallon of gasoline.<br \/>\nSo I think it&#8217;s inevitable that America will eventually be drilling for oil off the coasts, in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arctic_Refuge_drilling_controversy\">ANWAR<\/a>, and anywhere else oil is found.<br \/>\nWhat will be interesting to see is who or what the next energy scapegoat will be.  Currently, rightists are blaming environmentalists for high prices.  Let&#8217;s say policy is changed and it&#8217;s full speed drilling ahead.  If this move does not make a significant dent in prices (and I doubt it will), who will rightists then blame?  The list of targets is growing shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/06\/drilling_our_wa_2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Drilling Our Way Out Of The Hole\"><p>I was not at all surprised to see Senator McCain flip-flop with yesterday&#8217;s announcement that he now opposes the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling. I expect more politicians to follow this path as public pressure to do something about the energy crisis builds. A majority of Americans will apparently tolerate being in Iraq forever [&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-2317","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\/2317","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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}