{"id":1406,"date":"2007-03-14T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/richardson-lays-out-plan-for-oil-independence\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T18:08:00","slug":"richardson-lays-out-plan-for-oil-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/richardson-lays-out-plan-for-oil-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson lays out plan for oil independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rfg6Re6Ek2I\/AAAAAAAABiw\/n6T9kJpxMsk\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rfg6Re6Ek2I\/AAAAAAAABiw\/n6T9kJpxMsk\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041843854870090594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> outlined today his plan for weaning the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> off foreign oil if elected president.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At an oil and gas conference in New York, Richardson, the keynote speaker, said he would, if elected president, set a goal of reducing oil imports by 40 percent, replacing liquid fuels with biofuels by 2025 and reducing greenhouse gasses by 75 percent by 2050, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070314\/ap_on_el_pr\/on_the2008_trail;_ylt=AmxknW4JeXSbmI4Yeb9MWGzMWM0F\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He called foreign oil <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s \u201cAchilles heel,\u201d the news service reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cOur ability to drain the swamps of terrorism depends in part on our political will to change how we produce, distribute and consume energy,\u201d the news service quoted <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as saying. \u201cIn the West, it\u2019s not just liberal college kids who ask what we are doing about global warming \u2013 it\u2019s the conservative farmers and ranchers whose way of living is at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richardson is scheduled to participate in a presidential candidate forum sponsored by the International Association of Firefighters this afternoon in Washington, D.C., and will hold a fundraiser in Cleveland tonight before returning to Santa Fe to finish out the 2007 Legislature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He has to act on the budget and capital outlay bills by Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson outlined today his plan for weaning the United States off foreign oil if elected president. At an oil and gas conference in New York, Richardson, the keynote speaker, said he would, if elected president, set a goal of reducing oil imports by 40 percent, replacing liquid fuels with biofuels by 2025 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}