{"id":5200,"date":"2012-06-08T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:40:41","slug":"the-last-one-out-of-greece-please-turn-off-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"The last one out of Greece please turn off the lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/08\/us-greece-gas-idUSBRE8570PN20120608\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/08\/us-greece-gas-idUSBRE8570PN20120608<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has been percolating for a few weeks now and time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Greece&#8217;s electric power is generated from imported natural gas and they want to be paid.\u00a0 Now.<\/p>\n<p>The suppliers who aren&#8217;t being paid are from Russia, Turkey and Italy.\u00a0\u00a0 Unless they are reselling someone else&#8217;s gas, a natural gas company can afford to to allow their customer to be slow pay &#8211; as the cost of providing more gas is not high &#8211; so long as they believe they&#8217;ll be paid eventually.<\/p>\n<p>If Greece walks away from the Euro, companies providing Greece was things like natural gas may face not getting paid &#8211; or more likely being paid in near worthless and unusable Greek New Drachmas.<\/p>\n<p>If the natural gas gets turned off, the power goes off.\u00a0 When the power goes off, civilization falls apart within hours.\u00a0\u00a0 This is where reality and theory meet.\u00a0\u00a0 The clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/08\/us-greece-gas-idUSBRE8570PN20120608 This has been percolating for a few weeks now and time is running out. Most of Greece&#8217;s electric power is generated from imported natural gas and they want to be paid.\u00a0 Now. The suppliers who aren&#8217;t being paid are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}