{"id":3064,"date":"2011-06-09T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2011-06-09T18:46:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T18:46:44","slug":"good_news_for_american_energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Good News For American Energy Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/165409-exxon-makes-major-oil-discovery-in-gulf\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;reported that Exxon has made a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; The discovery,&nbsp; 700 million barrels of oil equivalent, was made at a deepwater well off the coast of Louisiana.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8221;This is one of the largest discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico in the last decade,&#8221; Exxon Mobil Exploration Company President Steve Greenlee said in a statement.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the moment, the Obama administration has been very slow to issue drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; Only fifteen deepwater permits have been issued since February.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Congressional Republicans are arguing the drilling permits in the Gulf need to be approved more quickly in order to take advantage of the new&nbsp;discovery.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Approving drilling permits more quickly would help lower unemployment in the Gulf region, and would also result in the creation of more jobs in the Gulf states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Hill&nbsp;reported that Exxon has made a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; The discovery,&nbsp; 700 million barrels of oil equivalent, was made at a deepwater well off the coast of Louisiana.&nbsp; The article reports: &#8220;&#8221;This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3064\">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-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}