{"id":457,"date":"2011-04-16T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-04-16T21:28:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T02:28:06","slug":"my-comment-on-nytimes-column-entitled-about-my-support-for-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"My Comment on NYTimes column entitled &#8220;About My Support for Natural Gas.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/16\/opinion\/16nocera.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha212\" target=\"_blank\">Article <\/a>states <em>\u201cThe truth is, every problem associated with drilling for natural gas is solvable.\u201d<\/em> Ah, and isn\u2019t that the American Way. Let\u2019s see \u2013 there\u2019s the Gulf Oil Spill for oil, and Three Mile Island for atomic energy, but where there\u2019s a will, there is a way.\u00a0 NOT in this country \u2013 there is no effective &#8220;will&#8221; because it will significantly cost the wealthy that control the decisions (and country)\u00a0some of\u00a0their profits.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><em>You can play the Not-In-My-Backyard card, employing environmental scare tactics to fight attempts to drill for that gas.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 OR, you can be very serious about reducing American energy consumption. That may not be what Americans want to hear, but it\u2019s the only thing that can save future generations of Americans from a despoiled life on this planet. If marketing has made us want all our junk in its current form, we could also market a healthy life style (the problem is, at the risk of profits of the rich and powerful).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article states \u201cThe truth is, every problem associated with drilling for natural gas is solvable.\u201d Ah, and isn\u2019t that the American Way. Let\u2019s see \u2013 there\u2019s the Gulf Oil Spill for oil, and Three Mile Island for atomic energy, but where there\u2019s a will, there is a way.\u00a0 NOT in this country \u2013 there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}