{"id":29740,"date":"2016-11-30T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29740"},"modified":"2016-11-30T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:59:30","slug":"this-is-not-really-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29740","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not Really Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-11-30\/opec-agrees-to-cut-output-by-1-2-million-barrels-a-day\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> is reporting today that OPEC (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"OPEC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OPEC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries<\/a>) has agreed to cut <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Extraction of petroleum\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extraction_of_petroleum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">oil production<\/a> beginning in January. The market has already reacted, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oil Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/concept\/Oil_Prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">crude prices<\/a> have climbed to $50. That means that the price of a gallon of gasoline will be going up, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Heating oil\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heating_oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">heating oil<\/a> will be going up, and the cost of electricity may also be affected. However, there is a bright side to this.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things to expect in a Trump Administration is the development of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">America<\/a>&#8216;s gas and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oil reserves\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oil_reserves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">oil resources<\/a>. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama Administration<\/a> has blocked that development wherever possible. Theoretically, the price increase along with the end of some regulations could create energy independence for America. This would have a drastic impact on our foreign policy. There is, however, more to the picture. In the past when OPEC has seen America moving toward energy independence, they have dropped the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Price of oil\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Price_of_oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">price of oil<\/a> so that development of America&#8217;s oil reserves did not make financial sense. It will be interesting to see if they do that again.<\/p>\n<p>We also need to remember what the impact of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States energy independence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_energy_independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">American energy independence<\/a> will do to the world market of oil. If America can reach a point where it exports oil, OPEC will no longer be important. It will be interesting to see at what point practicality on the part of OPEC overcomes immediate greed. Their immediate greed will encourage the growth of the American energy market. Practicality would keep prices low so that America had no incentive to develop its resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg is reporting today that OPEC (organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) has agreed to cut oil production beginning in January. The market has already reacted, and crude prices have climbed to $50. That means that the price of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,2434,689,10472],"class_list":["post-29740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-extraction-of-petroleum","tag-opec","tag-price-of-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29741,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions\/29741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}