{"id":869,"date":"2009-06-01T19:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2009-06-01T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:20:42","slug":"how_to_sell_unsafe_green_cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"How To Sell Unsafe, &#8216;Green&#8217; Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s no longer General Motors, but Government Motors, some changes will be made.&nbsp; The extreme environmentalists that are friends of this administration want GM to now manufacture &#8216;green&#8217; cars.&nbsp; The problem is that the American public has not been particularly interested in &#8216;green&#8217; cars.&nbsp; So how do you change the market place?&nbsp; Easy, raise the cost of fuel to the point that driving anything else is impractical.&nbsp; So let&#8217;s look at one of the early steps in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/how_to_sabotage_domestic_energ.html\">American Thinker<\/a>, Representative Nick J. Rahall II, West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee is proposing measures that will limit the production of domestic energy supplies.&nbsp; This will make us more dependent on foreign oil and more subject to the price hikes that come our way because of that dependency.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The measures proposed:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>End the &#8220;payment-in-kind&#8221; option that allows companies to pay royalties in oil and gas rather than cash. Mr. Salazar has said he would consider ending the program. <\/em><\/font>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>Tighten royalty payment rules through new penalties, elimination of interest on overpayments, and other adjustments. <\/em><\/font>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_1_0_0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/how_to_sabotage_domestic_energ.html#\"><font color=\"#006600\"><em>Consolidate<\/em><\/font><\/a><\/nobr><em> Interior Department leasing activities into a new Office of Federal Energy and Mineral Leasing, and end leasing by the Minerals Management Service and the Bureau of Land Management. <\/em><\/font>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>Require the adoption of five-year plans for oil and gas leasing on federal lands similar to those developed for offshore leasing. <\/em><\/font>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>Create an Oceans and Coastal Trust Fund funded by revenues from Outer Continental Shelf leases and royalties. <\/em><\/font>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>Impose new environmental restrictions to curtail pollution from offshore oil drilling. <\/em><\/font>\n<li><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>Impose royalties for the first time on uranium mining.<\/em><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\">It&#8217;s amazing to me that at a time when the oil producing countries of the world are not our friends, a Representative is moving to make us less energy independent.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s no longer General Motors, but Government Motors, some changes will be made.&nbsp; The extreme environmentalists that are friends of this administration want GM to now manufacture &#8216;green&#8217; cars.&nbsp; The problem is that the American public has not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=869\">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-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}