{"id":327,"date":"2008-05-22T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-05-22T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:49:24","slug":"ten-questions-for-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Ten Questions for Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is, the ones who are grilling oil executives.&#160; Bruce McQuain at QandO notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qando.net\/details.aspx?entry=8563\" target=\"_blank\">questions<\/a> suggested by the Institute for Energy Research.&#160; The first 3:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. Do you understand the fundamental economic principal of supply and demand for commodities pricing in the oil market?<\/p>\n<p>2. Oil is a global commodity, bought and sold on the world market. Given that the nine largest private oil companies hold less than 5% of the entire world&#8217;s proven oil reserves, isn&#8217;t it more likely that the law of supply and demand is &#8220;manipulating&#8221; current prices than the five corporations represented at your witness table?<\/p>\n<p>3. As a U.S. Senator, you have control over oil production on U.S. federal government lands. Taxpayers own these lands and the energy that lies beneath them, but 97% of the federal OCS and 94% of onshore government lands are not being used. Are you willing to help increase the world&#8217;s supply of oil &#8211; and thus reduce the price of oil and gasoline &#8211; by allowing more U.S. energy to be produced from these lands?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px\">Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px\">[tags]energy,oil,Senate,economics,commodities[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is, the ones who are grilling oil executives.&#160; Bruce McQuain at QandO notes questions suggested by the Institute for Energy Research.&#160; The first 3: 1. Do you understand the fundamental economic principal of supply and demand for commodities pricing in the oil market? 2. Oil is a global commodity, bought and sold on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,63,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-energy","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}