{"id":11615,"date":"2008-06-05T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/the-costanza-energy-policy\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T11:36:00","slug":"the-costanza-energy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/the-costanza-energy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Costanza Energy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious to know why the price of a barrel of oil continues to skyrocket?  Some more recent events are an obvious part of the picture, but <i>The Big Picture<\/i> contends that &ldquo;for the past 3 decades, we&rsquo;ve had a <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2008\/05\/how-to-drive-oi.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Costanza Energy policy<\/a> [see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seinfeldscripts.com\/TheOpposite.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this episode<\/a> if you&rsquo;re not familiar] &ndash; every decision we have made as a country has worked to drive energy prices higher.&rdquo;  It&rsquo;s an interesting list that we can only hope will get some scrutiny by our next administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/05\/29\/why-oil-prices-rose.html\" title=\"via Boing Boing\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-3913845883914492469?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious to know why the price of a barrel of oil continues to skyrocket? Some more recent events are an obvious part of the picture, but The Big Picture contends that &ldquo;for the past 3 decades, we&rsquo;ve had a George Costanza Energy policy [see this episode if you&rsquo;re not familiar] &ndash; every decision we have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/the-costanza-energy-policy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Costanza Energy Policy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}