{"id":44,"date":"2004-08-10T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=44"},"modified":"2004-08-10T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T07:06:09","slug":"oil-prices-surge-to-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/10\/oil-prices-surge-to-record-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge to record highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3550590.stm\">reports<\/a> that the price of crude oil is continuing its &#8220;record breaking surge&#8221; amid <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3550568.stm\">unrest<\/a> in Iraq.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis, of course, gives rise to an obvious, overly simplistic, but nonetheless relevant question.<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the media seem to be saying that the war was all about procuring cheap oil for the U.S., anymore?<\/p>\n<p>If that was the plan, it sure has backfired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that the price of crude oil is continuing its &#8220;record breaking surge&#8221; amid unrest in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}