{"id":1572,"date":"2009-08-19T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:45:22","slug":"oil-industry-backs-protests-of-emissions-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/oil-industry-backs-protests-of-emissions-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/business\/energy-environment\/19climate.html?ref=politics\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on protests in response to the pending Cap and Trade Bill.<br \/>\nUh, what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was the first of a series of about 20 rallies planned for Southern and oil-producing states to organize resistance to proposed legislation that would set a limit on emissions of heat-trapping gases, requiring many companies to buy emission permits. Participants described the system as an energy tax that would undermine the economy of Houston, the nation\u2019s energy capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and a few paragraphs down:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a sense of outrage and disappointment with the bill passed by the House,\u201d said James T. Hackett, chief executive of <a title=\"More information about Anadarko Petroleum Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/anadarko_petroleum_corporation\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Anadarko Petroleum<\/a>, who attended the rally. He defended, as an environmental measure, the use of buses financed by oil companies and Energy Citizens to carry employees to the rally. \u201cIf we all drove in cars, it wouldn\u2019t look good,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an article on protests in response to the pending Cap and Trade Bill. Uh, what&#8217;s wrong with this picture? This was the first of a series of about 20 rallies planned for Southern and oil-producing states to organize resistance to proposed legislation that would set a limit on emissions of heat-trapping gases, requiring many companies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/oil-industry-backs-protests-of-emissions-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}