{"id":13818,"date":"2009-08-20T07:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13818"},"modified":"2009-08-20T07:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:34:16","slug":"who-will-get-the-oil-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13818","title":{"rendered":"Who will get the oil in the Gulf?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner<\/a> editorial board writes this morning that it’s going to get a little crowded off our shores in the Gulf of Mexico with oil platforms – unfortunately, none of those platforms will be American;<\/p>\n

Brazil, China, India, Norway, Spain and Russia have all signed agreements with Cuba and the Bahamas to initiate exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico within the next two years. So the prospect of seeing Russian oil rigs 45 miles off the Florida Keys — where American oil companies are now forbidden to drill — is a very real possibility. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other day I wrote about the Obama Administration underwriting Brazilian oil drilling<\/a> off of their coast and ours. Now we face the prospect of watching the money and jobs that could be part of our economy floating a few miles off our own shores – financed by our own government (read that: our own earnings confiscated by the government).<\/p>\n

As I wrote the other day, there’s a very strong possibility that developing our own natural resources could be the engine that provides the jobs as well as making us energy independent for the next few decades. There hasn’t been a refinery built in the last 30 years (30 years ago last month, Jimmy Carter promised that we’d build a refinery<\/a> and a pipeline every time we needed one). Decades worth of oil and jobs lay fallow in Alaska.<\/p>\n

And who do you have more confidence in to drill clean and protect the environment – China, Russia, Cuba or the US? Apparently, someone is going to drill no matter what we do – shouldn’t it be us? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner editorial board writes this morning that it’s going to get a little crowded … Who will get the oil in the Gulf?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-foreign-policy","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}