{"id":2689,"date":"2008-06-19T20:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2008-06-20T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:34:57","slug":"bush-wants-to-drill-our-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Bush Wants To Drill Our Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/zbd9116474a5948318825746c0068c2dd.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/zbd9116474a5948318825746c0068c2dd.jpg','popup','width=600,height=755,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/zbd9116474a5948318825746c0068c2dd-tm.jpg\" height=\"251\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Zbd9116474A5948318825746C0068C2Dd\" \/><\/a>How ironic: our oil-business president &#8220;urged Congress&#8221; on Wednesday to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Why? Well, rising oil prices, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush presidency has used &#8220;global terrorism&#8221; to expand the US government&#8217;s powers (at home and abroad) like no administration ever before, so it should come as no surprise that he&#8217;d use &#8220;rising oil prices&#8221; to relax environmental restrictions on his family&#8217;s business, so his good ol&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skull_and_Bones\" target=\"_blank\">bonesmen<\/a><\/strong> can drill for a reported &#8220;1 billion barrels&#8221; right off the coast of <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two North County congressional representatives said they supported offshore drilling, while mayors of two coastal cities, the California Coastal Commission and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed it as a risky, short-sighted solution to the current energy crisis that ignores more innovative alternatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one would be shocked to know that our &#8220;North County&#8221; congressional representatives are lacking rational thougth processes, but this is crazy. Oddly, <strong>Mayor Bud Lewis<\/strong> is against this. And for that we thank him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I doubt that even if we had an abundance of oil that it would reduce gas prices,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I really have misgivings about the feds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t we all. For more details of this horror show, click some of the links below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/18\/news\/sandiego\/zbd9116474a5948318825746c0068c2dd.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/peninsula\/ci_9632439\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2008\/06\/20\/new_offshore_drilling_not_a_quick_fix_analysts_say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/20\/opinion\/20krugman.html?em&amp;ex=1214107200&amp;en=d3e1ddf46c503944&amp;ei=5087%0A\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How ironic: our oil-business president &#8220;urged Congress&#8221; on Wednesday to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Why? Well, rising oil prices, of course. The Bush presidency has used &#8220;global terrorism&#8221; to expand the US government&#8217;s powers (at home and abroad) like no administration ever before, so it should come as no surprise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}