{"id":40982,"date":"2014-01-06T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40982"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:04:57","slug":"40982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40982","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Almost As If They Don&#8217;t Consider Perverse Incentives Perverse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\":12j\">\n<div id=\":12i\">\n<div>\n<p>Federal officials claim crude oil from North Dakota has a lower flash point, so it&#8217;s more\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/238541671.html\" target=\"_blank\">dangerous to transport by rail<\/a>\u00a0than crude oil from other sources.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials continue to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/susan-jones\/senator-obama-stop-stalling-keystone-xl-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\">block the Keystone Pipeline<\/a>, which would transport crude oil safely underground.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials maintain their policy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/brand\/new-report-chronicles-oil-and-gas-production-federal-lands-declining-under-obamas-watch\" target=\"_blank\">refusing to issue permits<\/a>\u00a0to pump crude oil from leased federal lands.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if the Obama Administration is determined to stop oil and natural gas production, any way it can, just as we&#8217;re facing some of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/news\/weather-winter\/cold-returns-arctic-blast-heading-midwest-south-new-england-20131226\" target=\"_blank\">coldest<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/warming-expedition-stuck-ice\/2013\/12\/31\/id\/544646\" target=\"_blank\">weather<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2014\/01\/02\/new-record-low-set-in-the-coldest-city-in-the-continental-usa-much-of-the-country-headed-for-a-deep-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same mind-set that brought us Obama-care: arrogant despite being ignorant, unswayed by unintended calamity, serenely observing others suffer.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You gotta break eggs to make&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;er, whatever the Administration is trying to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Federal officials claim crude oil from North Dakota has a lower flash point, so it&#8217;s more\u00a0dangerous to transport by rail\u00a0than crude oil from other sources. Federal officials continue to\u00a0block the Keystone Pipeline, which would transport crude oil safely underground. Federal officials maintain their policy of\u00a0refusing to issue permits\u00a0to pump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40984,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982\/revisions\/40984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}