{"id":159185,"date":"2026-10-22T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159185"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:21:42","slug":"trump-invokes-cold-war-era-defence-production-act-to-boost-oil-production-and-refiningunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159185","title":{"rendered":"Trump invokes Cold War-era Defence Production Act to boost oil production and refiningUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS \u2060President Donald Trump determined \u2060on Thursday that petroleum \u2060production, refining and related activities are essential to national defence, a move that could open up US funding for fossil fuel projects.<br \/>\nIn a presidential memo, Trump also invoked part of \u200cthe Cold War-era Defence Production Act, allowing him to provide financial incentives for oil-related activities, pipelines and storage of liquid fuels.<br \/>\nPrices for crude oil and diesel have surged since the US and Israel attacked Iran in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3371836\/trump-invokes-cold-war-era-defence-production-act-boost-oil-production-and-refining\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS \u2060President Donald Trump determined \u2060on Thursday that petroleum \u2060production, refining and related activities are essential to national defence, a move&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}