{"id":11883,"date":"2012-01-27T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:41:01","slug":"facts-are-such-inconvenient-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11883","title":{"rendered":"Facts Are Such Inconvenient Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of the President’s State of the Union speech was his stating a plan to open 38 million acres for oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and a contest for natural gas technology.<\/p>\n

Erik Milito, upstream director for the American Petroleum Institute (API), was not particularly impressed by the plan.<\/p>\n

An article posted today at UPI.com:<\/a><\/p>\n

Milito noted the lease sale outlined by the Obama administration was originally included in a program that became effective in 2007. Obama’s critics said the White House was in essence trying to generate political capital based on decisions made by the previous administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The API said Obama’s lease announcements left more than 85 percent of offshore areas off limits to energy explorers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another reason voters have to pay close attention to anything said by any politician running for office this year. There will be a lot of misinformation floating out over the airwaves and in print in your local and national newspapers. It’s up to us to be our own fact-checkers!<\/p>\n

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