{"id":1678,"date":"2018-01-08T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2018-01-08T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:20:25","slug":"off-shore-oil-and-gas-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"off-shore oil and gas drilling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last week, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> reported that the Trump administration released a five-year off-shore drilling plan that would open up to 90% of coastal waters of the east coast, west coast, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska&#8230;\u00a0 A consortium of environmental groups denounced the plan.\u00a0 Our administration would scale back significantly (if not altogether) offshore drilling.\u00a0 The 2010 Deep Water Horizon accident hemorrhaged the equivalent of a <em>phenomenal<\/em> (and absolutely environmentally disastrous) 4.9 million barrels of oil. Then, prior, there was the<em> huge<\/em> Santa Barbara oil spill.\u00a0 Every time we drill out there, it&#8217;s metaphorically like spinning the chamber in a deadly Russian Roulette game.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to stop the game.\u00a0 What&#8217;s more, in the face ongoing severe global warming weather events, our administration&#8217;s &#8216;five-year-plan&#8217; would be about dramatically scaling back our carbon footprint &#8212; not adding to it.\u00a0 For a closer look at our Energy Plan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/energy\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last week, the Associated Press reported that the Trump administration released a five-year off-shore drilling plan that would open up to 90% of coastal waters of the east coast, west coast, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska&#8230;\u00a0 A <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1678\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}