{"id":984,"date":"2002-04-03T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-04T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=984"},"modified":"2002-04-03T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-04T02:57:00","slug":"saudis-knacker-alternative-energy-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/04\/03\/22\/57\/saudis-knacker-alternative-energy-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudis Knacker Alternative Energy Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So just <i>how<\/i> hard would it be to develop an alternative energy infrastructure? It&#8217;s already difficult because the country that should be taking the lead here, the <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Battle%20for%20Energy%20Dominance.html\">US, gets its oil specially subsidized from the Saudis for $1 less<\/a> than everyone else. But that buck is just chickenfeed. If the Saudis really felt the need, they could up production by nearly 50% and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/732026.asp?cp1=1\">drive oil prices way down<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Once%20and%20Future%20Petro%20Kings.html\">pricing alternatives out<\/a> of the marketplace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/732026.asp?cp1=1\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdYou want alternatives? That\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds just so much sweet talk,\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd one former official at the Saudi Petroleum Ministry told NEWSWEEK. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdSuppose you target the cost of alternative energy at so many dollars per Btu<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Oil\/Once%20and%20Future%20Petro%20Kings.html\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdand then we lower the cost of oil below that. All your investment goes down the drain.\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So just how hard would it be to develop an alternative energy infrastructure? It&#8217;s already difficult because the country that should be taking the lead here, the US, gets its oil specially subsidized from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}