{"id":134,"date":"2008-09-17T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/09\/17\/time-to-get-serious-about-energy\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T19:25:48","slug":"time-to-get-serious-about-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/09\/17\/time-to-get-serious-about-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Get Serious About Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t care if you are worried about global warming or not there is a serious problem with energy needs in the US. I see it as a national security problem and as an economic problem. We can\u2019t depend on foreign oil and we can\u2019t possibly drill enough of our own. It just doesn\u2019t work that way. That is both a security problem and an economic problem.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more to the economic problem. Sending all that money outside the country means less to invest locally. Plus even if and when we wake up to the need for more efficiency and better\/more use of alternative sources of energy if we don\u2019t get going soon we\u2019ll be dependent on foreign inventions and products there. So still more money leaving the country. Where as if we invested in it now we could quickly become leaders (and hence exporters) of the technology and products.<\/p>\n<p>Why is no one doing anything about this? Not even Obama is really getting in on this. McCain pays lip service but doesn\u2019t seem very serious about anything but more drilling. I like the plans that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickensplan.com\/index.php\">T Boone Pickens<\/a> is proposing. It just makes so much sense. And it makes sense in a capitalistic world! He\u2019s spending a ton of his own money to promote his plan and he\u2019s getting on TV and putting his own ads out there. But who is paying attention? Not enough people. Scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t care if you are worried about global warming or not there is a serious problem with energy needs in the US. I see it as a national security problem and as an economic problem. We can\u2019t depend on foreign oil and we can\u2019t possibly drill enough of our own. It just doesn\u2019t work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}