{"id":1670,"date":"2011-03-31T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:27:22","slug":"obama-hopes-to-reduce-oil-imports-by-one-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/obama-hopes-to-reduce-oil-imports-by-one-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Hopes To Reduce Oil Imports By One-Third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/041005oil.pump_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1671\" title=\"oil\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/041005oil.pump_-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/041005oil.pump_-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/041005oil.pump_-342x215.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/041005oil.pump_.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Under the pressure of increasing gas prices, President Obama announced a  plan to reduce dependency on foreign oil by decreasing oil imports by  one-third by 2025. In order to do so he wants Americans, particularly  young Americans, to focus on using more fuel efficient cars to show  automakers that there is a demand for alternative fueled vehicles. His  plan also calls for an increase in domestic production of oil and  developing cars that are more fuel efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The President hopes that by decreasing oil imports by one-third over the  next decade that it will stabilize oil prices and that prices at the  gas pump will be less affected by events occurring around the world. He  urges that Americans most stop \u201cgoing from shock to trance\u201d in response  to prices at the pumps and instead, we must take action now to stop our  prices from being inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>Obama also has ordered safety evaluations of nuclear power plants in  response to the problem in Japan. He still feels that nuclear power is  important for America\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the pressure of increasing gas prices, President Obama announced a plan to reduce dependency on foreign oil by decreasing oil imports by one-third by 2025. In order to do so he wants Americans, particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[921,819,919,920],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-gas-prices","tag-obama","tag-oil","tag-reduce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}