{"id":289,"date":"2007-01-18T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=289"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:43:50","slug":"thank-you-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/thank-you-big-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Big Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p211.news.mud.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070118\/ap_on_bi_ge\/oil_prices\">What will happen at the pump?<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Oil prices briefly fell below $50 per barrel Thursday for the first time since May 25, 2005, after the government reported larger-than-expected jumps in crude oil and gasoline inventories.<\/p>\n<p>Oil has dropped 17 percent since the end of 2006 amid weeks of mild winter weather in the U.S. Northeast, a key consumer of heating fuels, and growing energy stockpiles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9970294\/\">And what will happen in Congress?<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>The oil executives found little sympathy from senators, who said their constituents are suffering from high energy prices while Big Oil makes big profits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time for similar hearings so Senators can extend gratitude to the oil execs?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia3.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/051109\/051109_hearings_hmed_8a.hmedium.jpg\" alt=\"Oil execs before congress -- November 9, 2005\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p>(PS: This is not a defense of Big Oil.)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will happen at the pump? Oil prices briefly fell below $50 per barrel Thursday for the first time since May 25, 2005, after the government reported larger-than-expected jumps in crude oil and gasoline inventories. Oil has dropped 17 percent since the end of 2006 amid weeks of mild winter weather in the U.S. Northeast, &#8230; <a title=\"Thank You, Big Oil?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/thank-you-big-oil\/\" aria-label=\"More on Thank You, Big Oil?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}