{"id":8673,"date":"2010-09-05T19:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/05\/the-political-chemistry-of-oil\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:15:41","slug":"the-political-chemistry-of-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/the-political-chemistry-of-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"The political chemistry of oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the Gulf oil spill&#8217;s aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil &#8212; by confronting consumers with its real cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/LisaMargonelli_2010X-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/LisaMargonelli-2010x.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=940&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=lisa_margonelli_the_political_chemistry_of_oil;year=2010;theme=a_greener_future;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=ocean_stories;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;event=TEDxOilSpill;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Gulf oil spill&#8217;s aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil &#8212; by confronting consumers with its real cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2fT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}