{"id":2077,"date":"2010-07-23T12:48:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2010-07-23T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T12:48:52","slug":"the_drilling_moratorium_in_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"The Drilling Moratorium In The Gulf Of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/gulf-oil-spill\/index.ssf\/2010\/07\/deepwater_drilling_moratorium_7.html\">New Orleans Times Picayune<\/a>&nbsp;reported Wednesday on a rally held in Lafayette, Louisiana, to protest the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;About 15,000 people packed the Cajundome on the campus of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette as Gov. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nola.com\/tag\/bobby-jindal\/index.html\"><em>Bobby Jindal <\/em><\/a><em>and a stream of speakers blasted the six-month moratorium declared after <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/gulf-oil-spill\/\"><em>BP&#8217;s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico<\/em><\/a><em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;The offshore petroleum industry and companies that serve it employ about 100,000 people in Louisiana, according to the LSU Center for Energy Studies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On June 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/2010\/06\/what-happens-when-you-dont-tel.html\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the scientists originally consulted on the oil spill had not recommended the six-month moratorium (although the Obama Administration originally claimed that they had).&nbsp; The six-month moratorium will devastate the area&#8217;s economy, increase America&#8217;s dependence on foreign oil, and probably result in $7 per gallon gasoline prices at the pump within a year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I hope the Obama Administration heard what the people who rallied in Lafayette were saying, but I am not optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Times Picayune&nbsp;reported Wednesday on a rally held in Lafayette, Louisiana, to protest the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;About 15,000 people packed the Cajundome on the campus of the University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}