{"id":345727,"date":"2018-01-28T07:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-offshore-drilling-plan\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:16:29","slug":"trumps-offshore-drilling-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-offshore-drilling-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Offshore Drilling Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99300\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99300\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-6.32.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"338\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Anita Ritenour | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was offshore oil drilling deja vu for me\u2014having broken the story about the oil industry seeking to drill in the offshore Atlantic nearly 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But this time offshore drilling would be completely unnecessary with the U.S, awash in petroleum (thus $2.50-a-gallon gas) and oil drilling in the sea ten times more costly than drilling on land. Plus, renewable energy, led by solar and wind, is now well-developed and cheaper than fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>And although in 1970, the spill in 1969 from an oil-drilling platform off Santa Barbara, California that blackened\u00a0miles of coastline and killed birds, fish and marine mammals had just demonstrated the environmental dangers of offshore oil drilling,\u00a0just eight years ago the\u00a0Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and consequent oil spill disaster in 2010 was even worse, blackening the coasts of several states along the Gulf of Mexico with oil and killing marine life on an even more massive scale.\u00a0It was the biggest offshore oil spill ever.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, global warming\u2014mainly caused by burning of fossil fuels notably oil\u2014has shown in recent years the danger of continuing to use oil. Another difference: this time partisan politics has become part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>But there I was as the new year began vacationing at an inn in Key West, Florida. This was among the areas I traveled to after, in 1970, at the daily Long Island Press, exposing the oil industry\u2019s Atlantic offshore drilling plans. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/26\/trumps-offshore-drilling-plan\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Anita Ritenour | CC BY 2.0 It was offshore oil drilling deja vu for me\u2014having broken the story about the oil industry seeking to drill in the offshore Atlantic nearly 50 years ago. But this time offshore drilling would be completely unnecessary with the U.S, awash in petroleum (thus $2.50-a-gallon gas) and oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}