{"id":22072,"date":"2011-02-04T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22072"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:58:59","slug":"senate-avoids-important-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22072","title":{"rendered":"Senate avoids important stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/03\/AR2011020305388.html?hpid=topnews\">Senate investigates why our intelligence agencies didn&#8217;t anticipate the drama <\/a>unfolding in the middle east, and they point fingers at the FBI and the Army for their failures in the Hasan murders, natural gas supplies are dwindling in the southwest. From <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20110204\/D9L5RP6G1.html\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With tens of thousands of people across New Mexico without natural gas service, Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday declared a state of emergency, ordered government offices be shut down Friday and urged schools to &#8220;strongly consider&#8221; remaining closed for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Demand has soared because of extremely cold weather across the state since Tuesday. New Mexico Gas Company said rolling blackouts in West Texas also impeded the delivery of natural gas to New Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxphoenix.com\/dpp\/weather\/natural-gas-outage-tucson-2-3-2011\">Fox Phoenix<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Southwest Gas is working to restore service to about 14,000 Southwest Gas customers out of luck Thursday due to the unseasonably cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Gas customers in the Rita Ranch and eastern foothills areas of Tucson are experiencing a natural gas outage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you imagine? A natural gas shortage in the United States? With untapped reserves inside our own borders. I filled my propane tank Wednesday and the cost was almost 100% higher than it was when I last filled it in September.<\/p>\n<p>Drill here, drill now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while the Senate investigates why our intelligence agencies didn&#8217;t anticipate the drama unfolding in the &hellip; <a title=\"Senate avoids important stuff\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22072\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate avoids important stuff<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072","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=22072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}