{"id":2553,"date":"2008-07-05T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/newmexiken\/newmexiken-worth-knowing\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T17:07:12","slug":"newmexiken-worth-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/newmexiken\/newmexiken-worth-knowing\/","title":{"rendered":"NewMexiKen: Worth knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

That title is true in more than one sense. NewMexiKen<\/a> notes another flaw in the “Let’s drill our way out of this hole” argument. Ask a Republican to sponsor legislation requiring all domestic production to be consumed domestically and watch him or her sputter about the Sacred Free Market (half-Santa Claus, half-Old Testament god (the one you really don’t want to piss-off)).<\/p>\n

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NewMexiKen: Worth knowing<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cA record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S. refined petroleum products were exported during the first four months of this year, up 33 percent from 1.2 million barrels a day over the same period in 2007. Shipments this February topped 1.8 million barrels a day for the first time during any month, according to final numbers from the Energy Department.\u201d (Forbes<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Put another way, we are exporting more than twice as much oil now as we could expect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to produce when it came online in 15-20 years.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Exporting. <\/p>\n

More than twice as much. <\/p>\n

NewMexiKen: Worth knowing<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ANWR represents a pot o’ gold for BushCo — nothing more than that. Point that out — again and again and again — along with the fact that oil companies already have many leases they aren’t drilling (I thank god, but that’s beside the point). peace, mjh <\/p>\n

mjh\u2019s blog \u2014 Let\u2019s Finish Destroying What We\u2019ve Started Before Destroying Something New<\/a><\/p>\n

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In other words, 10,000 well permits have been stockpiled by the already cash-bloated oil and gas industry.<\/strong> In addition, 47<\/a>.5 million acres of onshore public lands are leased by oil and gas companies. Only 13 million of those acres are actually in production. …<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATHAN NEWCOMER
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Albuquerque<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That title is true in more than one sense. NewMexiKen notes another flaw in the “Let’s drill our way out of this hole” argument. Ask a Republican to sponsor legislation requiring all domestic production to be consumed domestically and watch him or her sputter about the Sacred Free Market (half-Santa Claus, half-Old Testament god (the … Continue reading NewMexiKen: Worth knowing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newmexiken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}