{"id":1749,"date":"2018-04-20T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2018-04-20T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:43:07","slug":"deep-water-horizon-oil-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Deep Water Horizon; oil addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the eighth anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0It is believed to be, by <em>far<\/em>, the largest marine oil spill in history. \u00a0The total discharge was 4.9 million barrels. \u00a0And they were finding oil plumes the size of Manhattan in the water. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t long after this that the Obama administration sanctioned more off shore oil drilling. \u00a0And the Trump administration is ramping this up even more. \u00a0Uh&#8230; \u00a0As a nation we&#8217;re addicted to oil. \u00a0Period. \u00a0And burning oil, among a number of detrimental things, is causing rapidly increasing, and also quite catastrophic, global warming. \u00a0This kind of increased off shore drilling only &#8220;enables&#8221; our addiction more. \u00a0What we should be doing is weaning ourselves off of oil, if not just going: &#8220;cold turkey.&#8221; Our kids are counting on us to do the right thing. \u00a0For more on our position on energy across the board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/energy\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the eighth anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0It is believed to be, by far, the largest marine oil spill in history. \u00a0The total discharge was 4.9 million barrels. \u00a0And they were <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1749\"><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-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}