{"id":3039,"date":"2010-06-11T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2010-06-11T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:22:51","slug":"obamas-not-blameless-on-oil-blowout-but-we-share-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s not blameless on oil blowout but we share blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-06-11-rolling-stone-piece-oils-up-obama\/\"> the gist<\/a> of an 8,000 word Rolling Stone article. The gist is a quick summary of the article: <\/p>\n<p>A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In May 2000, an environmental assessment for deepwater drilling in the Gulf presciently warned that &#8220;spill responses may be complicated by the potential for very large magnitude spills (because of the high production rates associated with deepwater wells).&#8221; The report noted that the oil industry &#8220;has estimated worst-case spill volumes ranging from 5,000 to 116,000 barrels a day for 120 days,&#8221; and it even anticipated the underwater plumes of oil that are currently haunting the Gulf: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise that the oil under the Gulf is under such pressure with a mile of water pushing down on it. I used to bore my children about the glaciers by telling them how Duluth keeps rising by a few milimeters each year from the melting of the mile thick glaciers that once depressed the land. That was 10,000 years ago and we are still recoiling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the gist of an 8,000 word Rolling Stone article. The gist is a quick summary of the article: A sample: In May 2000,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}