{"id":33477,"date":"2011-04-03T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/obama%e2%80%99s-energy-talk-new-ideas-or-same-old-song-and-dance-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:10","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-energy-talk-new-ideas-or-same-old-song-and-dance-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/obama%e2%80%99s-energy-talk-new-ideas-or-same-old-song-and-dance-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Energy Talk: New Ideas, or Same Old Song and Dance? | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&rsquo;s the News<\/strong>: President Obama gave a major address outlining his plan for U.S. energy security yesterday. His major goal is quite ambitious: to cut American oil imports by one-third by 2025. And towards that goal, he listed a number of initiatives that many news organizations see as a rehashing of old ideas, however good they might be. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/18486335?story_id=18486335&amp;fsrc=rss\">According to <em>The Economist<\/em><\/a>, &ldquo;it is hard to see his recycled list of proposals as anything more than a reassurance to the environmentally minded, and to Americans fretting about rising fuel prices, that the president feels their pain.&rdquo;<\/p><p><strong>How the Heck<\/strong>: Obama cited four major tactics for decreasing oil imports:<\/p><p> Increase domestic production of oil<br>Use more natural gas and biofuels<br>Spur wider use of electric cars<br>Increase the efficiency of gasoline-powered motor vehicles <\/p><p><strong>What&rsquo;s the Context<\/strong>:<\/p><p> In his speech, Obama noted that &ldquo;American oil production [has] reached its highest level since 2003.&rdquo; As the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/kicking-the-tires-on-obamas-energy-speech\/2011\/03\/30\/AFgJHi5B_blog.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>&lsquo;s Glenn Kessler notes<\/a>, domestic oil production is higher now mostly because companies are now harvesting oil from the shale of North Dakota and other states. ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ozZI6l_LifKoAP5-qYliFN8Lg3E\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b17ec_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ozZI6l_LifKoAP5-qYliFN8Lg3E\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c4eb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c4eb_lyD4SoXVIZs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c4eb_Wt9BdwO1r9I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s the News: President Obama gave a major address outlining his plan for U.S. energy security yesterday. His major goal is quite ambitious: to cut American oil imports by one-third by 2025. And towards that goal, he listed a number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/obama%e2%80%99s-energy-talk-new-ideas-or-same-old-song-and-dance-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}