{"id":2621,"date":"2021-12-04T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2021-12-04T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:52:34","slug":"crude-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"Crude Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"

California is killing the Amazon rainforest,<\/p>\n

exporting more crude oil than any other state.<\/div>\n
Sixty six percent of all extracted hits our country,<\/div>\n
and most of that is aimed for Cal, an overwhelming rate.<\/div>\n
Four hundred gas flares dot the Ecuadorian landscape,<\/div>\n
imperiling the health of indigenous tribes.<\/div>\n
The country owes some twenty billion bucks to China,<\/div>\n
and selling crude is one way to pay down these bribes.<\/div>\n
California last year took in sixty million barrels,<\/div>\n
half of all the crude that’s\u00a0shipped out from the Amazon.<\/div>\n
Sacrificing habitat brings with it many perils,<\/div>\n
and the worst is it kills people when the trees are gone.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California is killing the Amazon rainforest, exporting more crude oil than any other state. Sixty six percent of all extracted hits our country, and most of that is aimed for Cal, an overwhelming rate. Four … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":843,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=843","url_meta":{"origin":2621,"position":0},"title":"Lunar Tick","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The year of the rooster could be like a rocket booster, a launch into the perilous unknown. 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