{"id":174,"date":"2021-09-26T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/?p=174"},"modified":"2021-09-26T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T21:16:42","slug":"car-gasoline-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/2021\/09\/26\/car-gasoline-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Car\/Gasoline Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to take the neutral side in this discussion was a hard one to make. While I know that driving excessively is bad for the environment it&#8217;s one of my favorite things to do. I couldn&#8217;t support using more gas and cars because the consequences of adding more pollution is a nightmare for me. While on the other hand, I can&#8217;t support a radical slash in usage because I love to drive manual for fun. I am also a creature of habit and any change in either direction seems scary to me. I love the modern convenience of driving and personally am not ready to give that up.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I am not advocating for the repeal of emissions laws on new vehicles.\u00a0 Total emissions need to come down and change needs to happen I just don&#8217;t think that limiting gasoline is the best way to accomplish this because it would affect small towns the hardest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to take the neutral side in this discussion was a hard one to make. While I know that driving excessively is bad for the environment it&#8217;s one of my favorite things to do. I couldn&#8217;t support using more gas and cars because the consequences of adding more pollution is a nightmare for me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-uncategorized","8":"no-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lotsofoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}