{"id":4006,"date":"2011-05-09T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2011-06-14T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T18:55:30","slug":"drill-baby-drill-drill-here-drill-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/drill-baby-drill-drill-here-drill-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill, Baby, Drill&#8230; Drill Here, Drill Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Twitter, but it&#8217;s worth posting here as well:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/0509111529.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4007\" title=\"0509111529\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/0509111529-300x225.jpg?resize=500%2C425\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a>If you want to talk to me about alternative energy, do it after we&#8217;ve tapped into the abundant oil and natural gas reserves we have in this country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m not opposed alternatives, but unless they can reduce my energy costs today&#8230; They aren&#8217;t worth jack!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703730804576313110635853424.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\" target=\"_blank\">Washington vs. Energy Security<\/a> &#8211; Harold Ford Jr., Wall Street Journal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Twitter, but it&#8217;s worth posting here as well: If you want to talk to me about alternative energy, do it after we&#8217;ve tapped into the abundant oil and natural gas reserves we have in this country. I&#8217;m not opposed alternatives, but unless they can reduce my energy costs today&#8230; They aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[285,7],"tags":[748,1175,33],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-energy","category-politics","tag-2012-elections","tag-alternative-energy","tag-gas-prices","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-12C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2824,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/sarah-palin-dollars-troubles-show-need-for-energy-independence\/","url_meta":{"origin":4006,"position":0},"title":"Sarah Palin: Dollar&#8217;s Troubles Show Need for Energy Independence","author":"Jeff","date":"October 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Two days ago the British newspaper The Independent published a rather dubious report by Robert Fisk claiming that\u00a0 oil-producing Arab states along with China, Russia, Japan and France were conspiring on a plan to dump the dollar for oil trading, a move which would seriously weaken our currency and influence\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":422,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/sierra-hotel-the-gang-of-20-folds\/","url_meta":{"origin":4006,"position":1},"title":"Sierra Hotel! 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I could write about Barack Obama's world tour but that's been done to death and frankly I can't think of anything hasn't already been said. 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