{"id":3975,"date":"2010-05-27T21:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2010-05-27T21:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:26:41","slug":"the-scale-of-the-cost-of-the-gulfbp-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/05\/27\/the-scale-of-the-cost-of-the-gulfbp-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scale of the Cost of the Gulf\/BP Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2010\/05\/federal_gulf_cleanup_costs_at_87m_and_rising.php?ref=fpa\">observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal officials say cleaning up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has already cost the government <strong>$87 million<\/strong>, making it the <strong>third-most expensive cleanup<\/strong> effort in the nation&#8217;s history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/09\/AR2009070903020.html\">comparison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other skeptics inside the Pentagon note that the planes, designed 30 years ago to combat a Cold War adversary, have cost an average of <strong>$350 million apiece<\/strong> and say they are not a priority in the age of small wars and terrorist threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s for grins, right? \u00c2\u00a0Because if anyone actually gave a shit about fiscal responsibility, this would be all over the front pages, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest observation: Federal officials say cleaning up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has already cost the government $87 million, making it the third-most expensive cleanup effort in the nation&#8217;s history. For comparison: Other skeptics inside the Pentagon note that the planes, designed 30 years ago to combat a Cold War adversary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}