{"id":38710,"date":"2014-09-26T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=38710"},"modified":"2014-09-26T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:33:59","slug":"perry-more-american-energy-to-counter-russian-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/09\/26\/perry-more-american-energy-to-counter-russian-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry: More American Energy to Counter Russian Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38712\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38712\" alt=\"Texas Governor Rick Perry waiting to be introduced at Energy &amp; Climate Policy Summit in Houston\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/09\/140925_rick-perry-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/09\/140925_rick-perry-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/09\/140925_rick-perry-620x404.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\"> <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Governor Rick Perry waiting to be introduced at Energy &amp; Climate Policy Summit in Houston<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governor Rick Perry says the United States can keep Russia in check by increasing the production of oil and gas here at home.<a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.tx.us\/news\/speech\/20170\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perry spoke<\/a>\u00a0last night in Houston at a conference on energy and climate policy, sponsored by the conservative think tank the Texas Public Policy Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reliance on oil has made us more dependent than we should have been on sources that are hostile to this country, \u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n<p>But now, oil and gas production here has surged with the boom in the drilling technique called fracking. Perry said domestic production could be expanded even more, which he said, would give the U.S. added leverage in dealing with Russia. Russia has its own vast supplies of natural gas it sells to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnergy is a weapon in the hands of aggressors. So I say if energy is going to be used as a weapon, America should have the largest arsenal,\u201d said Perry.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To do that, Perry \u2014 who ran for president and might do so again \u2014 said a national energy policy more friendly to the industry was needed at the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only need a president with leadership to blaze a new trail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Perry made no mention of another way to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, such as alternatives like wind. Texas leads the nation in using wind to make electricity. Adrian Shelley, Executive Director of the community environmental group Air Alliance Houston, listened to Perry\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who\u2019s talking about the energy economy of the 21st century and can\u2019t get beyond increased production from hydraulic fracturing just isn\u2019t looking forward enough,\u201d said Shelley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rick Perry says the United States can keep Russia in check by increasing the production of oil and gas here at home.Perry spoke\u00a0last night in Houston at a conference on energy and climate policy, sponsored by the conservative think tank the Texas Public Policy Foundation. \u201cThe reliance on oil has made us more dependent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[15,62],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38715,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions\/38715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}