{"id":421,"date":"2009-01-08T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2009-01-08T19:58:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T19:58:43","slug":"ban_lifted_on_oil_shale_in_wyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Ban Lifted on Oil Shale in Wyoming and Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U. S. Interior Department has lifted a 79-year old executive order banning oil-shale development in Wyoming and Utah.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a8IHL.4KMA1M&amp;refer=home\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>,&nbsp;the Department issued a notice that will open up 6 million acres in Wyoming and 1.7 million in Utah for leasing pending analysis to determine if the land warrants special protections. The plan would take effect next month.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things to note here.&nbsp; First, Barack Obama would have the power as President to overturn this measure.&nbsp; Second, I have a question&#8211;in the current era of relatively cheap gasoline and oil, is oil-shale available at a price that would be competitive?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Just as a note, I would like to say it would be wonderful to have sources of energy here that didn&#8217;t have diplomatic strings attached.&nbsp; Europe is learning that lesson now as Vladimir Putin is consolidating his control over the oil that flows into Europe.&nbsp; We need to learn from what is happening there and from what has happened to us in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U. S. Interior Department has lifted a 79-year old executive order banning oil-shale development in Wyoming and Utah.&nbsp; According to Bloomberg.com,&nbsp;the Department issued a notice that will open up 6 million acres in Wyoming and 1.7 million in Utah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=421\">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-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}