{"id":708406,"date":"2010-04-02T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011510266_obamaadministrationproposesoildrillingalongatlanticcoastline.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:07:04","slug":"obama-administration-proposes-oil-drilling-along-atlantic-coastline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708406","title":{"rendered":"Obama administration proposes oil drilling along Atlantic coastline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Renewable energy brings starvation, not nirvana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists claim drilling for oil is evil, but they do not understand that renewable energy schemes can never become a substitute for fossil fuels [\u201cObama wants to open part of Alaska coast to oil drilling,\u201d Page One, March 31]. You cannot replace the highly concentrated, reliable energy of fossil fuels with weak, diffuse and fluctuating energy from the wind and sun.<\/p>\n<p>Food equals energy and energy equals food. The higher we push the cost of energy up with mathematically impossible renewable energy schemes, the higher the cost of food will climb.<\/p>\n<p>We will literally starve to death billions of people and our economy will collapse if we try to rely on wind and solar for anything more than symbolic window dressing.<\/p>\n<p>The only possible carbon-free replacement for fossil fuels is the new generation of small, relatively inexpensive liquid fluoride thorium nuclear reactors that could be mass-produced on assembly lines and are 100 percent meltdown-proof and incapable of producing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy brings starvation, not nirvana.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Christopher Calder, Eugene, Ore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drilling will benefit the wrong crowd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yep, there goes that socialist Obama again. Now he\u2019s opening up offshore oil drilling to the poor oil companies who only made $40 billion or so in profits last year. Boy, those tea-party people sure had him pegged.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Richard Reuther, Richland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy brings starvation, not nirvana Environmentalists claim drilling for oil is evil, but they do not understand that renewable energy schemes can never become a substitute for fossil fuels [\u201cObama wants to open part of Alaska coast to oil drilling,\u201d Page One, March 31]. You cannot replace the highly concentrated, reliable energy of fossil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YhU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}