{"id":300,"date":"2007-06-21T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2007-06-21T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:29:11","slug":"slighty-less-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Slighty Less Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The energy bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/06\/21\/congress.energy.ap\/index.html\">passed<\/a> by the Senate is slightly less dumb. Most of it is reasonable except:<\/p>\n<li>The &#8220;anti-gouging&#8221; legislation.  Congrfess should not be setting prices.  Congress should especially not be setting prices when they&#8217;ve just created a huge reason for oil production to go way way down and oil prices to therefore go way way up.\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve blogged quite a bit on the stupidity of ethnanol. Here&#8217;s a prediction:  Before 2022, when the ethanol requirements kick in, this provision will be cancelled when it turns out that ethanol is an ecological and economic disaster.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The energy bill passed by the Senate is slightly less dumb. Most of it is reasonable except: The &#8220;anti-gouging&#8221; legislation. Congrfess should not be setting prices. Congress should especially not be setting prices when they&#8217;ve just created a huge reason for oil production to go way way down and oil prices to therefore go way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slighty Less Dumb<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}