{"id":81,"date":"2008-07-29T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-07-29T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:41:20","slug":"pardon-my-politics-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Pardon My Politics&#8230;BUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is not telling the truth, or something. See if your mind works like mine. They say that producing more oil in the U.S. won&#8217;t lower the price of a barrel of oil. Then why has the price of a barrel gone down over $25 since GW rescinded an off-shore drilling ban (while Congress and Arnold work on making sure it does not resume)? We have not produced any more oil &#8211; it looks like just the fact that we (the U.S.) <strong>could<\/strong> start drilling off-shore had some impact.<\/p>\n<p>I will agree that we need to use less oil &#8211; find ways to conserve or better use a resource. That makes sense. When others think they have us over the barrel (no pun intended), they will continue to bully us. <\/p>\n<p>The thinking here is that we need to do our own investigations rather than believe everything the politicians we elect or the major news sources. <\/p>\n<p>Then too, there&#8217;s ANWR and ethanol and CFL and &#8220;Hybrid&#8221; vehicles. Questions flood my mind, but my thoughts can be put on hold &#8211; have you spent the time investigating how your energy can be saved? After all, we are the caretakers of what <strong>HE<\/strong> gave us (whether we want to be or not).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is not telling the truth, or something. See if your mind works like mine. They say that producing more oil in the U.S. won&#8217;t lower the price of a barrel of oil. Then why has the price of a&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=81\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}