{"id":5035,"date":"2012-03-22T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2012-03-22T08:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:04:57","slug":"if-bush-had-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"If Bush had said it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/22\/obamateurism-of-the-day-710\/\" target=\"_blank\">HotAir<\/a>, apparently President Obama thinks the price of oil is hovering around $1.25 a barrel. Per his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/03\/21\/remarks-president-energy\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> to Sempra Energy,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have subsidized oil companies for a century.  We want to encourage production of oil and gas, and make sure that wherever we&#8217;ve got American resources, we are tapping into them.  But they don\u2019t need an additional incentive when gas is $3.75 a gallon, when oil is $1.20 a barrel, $1.25 a barrel.  They don\u2019t need additional incentives.  They are doing fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet this snip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oil-price.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">oil-price.net<\/a> shows the price to be hovering about 100 times that amount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5034\" title=\"oil-prices-120322\" src=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil-prices-120322.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honest mistake or intentional gaffe that leaves the impression that oil companies are gouging and, consequently, do not need government subsidies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From HotAir, apparently President Obama thinks the price of oil is hovering around $1.25 a barrel. Per his speech to Sempra Energy, We have subsidized oil companies for a century. We want to encourage production of oil and gas, and make sure that wherever we&#8217;ve got American resources, we are tapping into them. But they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,18,26,59],"tags":[1061,80,873,874],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-politics","category-rusty","tag-energy","tag-obama","tag-oil","tag-oil-prices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}