{"id":2931,"date":"2011-05-02T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T11:46:16","slug":"another_attack_on_domestic_ene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"Another Attack On Domestic Energy Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker at Power Line<\/a> posted a story yesterday about the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.  <\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“Last December, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the lizard, a three-inch-long reptile native to the American Southwest, “faces immediate and significant threats due to oil and gas activities and herbicide treatments” and initiated the process to get it listed under the Endangered Species Act.<\/em><\/p>\n

“In 2002, the Center for Biological Diversity first petitioned to have the lizard, originally considered a subspecies of the common sagebrush lizard, listed as endangered. The Bush administration delayed consideration for six years. Last year, the Obama administration put it back on the fast track.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

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“…Steven Chu, Obama’s secretary of energy, [has] expressed a fondness for high European gas prices as a means of reducing consumption of fossil fuels. In a September 2008 newspaper interview, he said: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Gas prices in Europe then averaged about $8 a gallon.<\/em><\/p>\n

“As gas prices here soar toward $5 a gallon, Chu’s friends at the Interior Department may help him and President Obama get the rest of the way toward their goal. If the dunes sagebrush lizard, now considered a separate species, is granted endangered status, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas may have to be shut down.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If we are to remain free and prosperous in American, we need leaders who understand the stategic and practical need to develop our own sources of carbon-based fuel.  Whether we like it or not, carbon-based fuel is the economic engine of a thriving ecoonomy.  I just hope the next administration can undo the damage done by this president’s energy policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker at Power Line posted a story yesterday about the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.  The article reports: “Last December, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the lizard, a three-inch-long reptile native to the American Southwest, “faces immediate and significant threats … Continue reading →<\/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-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","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=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}