{"id":173865622,"date":"2010-07-06T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173865622"},"modified":"2010-07-06T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:00:22","slug":"7-a-gallon-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173865622","title":{"rendered":"$7-a-gallon gas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By BEN LIEBERMAN<br \/>\n President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a Harvard University study&#8217;s estimate of the per-gallon price of the president&#8217;s global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.<br \/>\nSo what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?<br \/>\nGood question, because such measures wouldn&#8217;t do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.<br \/>\nThe answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s now-famous words, &quot;You never want a serious crisis to go to waste &#8212; and what I mean by that is it&#8217;s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRead more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/gallon_gas_9GlF3o1xIcIBelOV3k0RsK#ixzz0su2fDJtN\">https:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/gallon_gas_9GlF3o1xIcIBelOV3k0RsK#ixzz0su2fDJtN<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20100706080022771<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BEN LIEBERMAN President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That&#8217;s a Harvard University study&#8217;s estimate of the per-gallon price of the president&#8217;s global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess. So what does global-warming legislation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173865622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$7-a-gallon gas?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173865622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173865622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173865622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173865622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173865622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173865622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173865622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}