{"id":1147,"date":"2008-12-07T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2008\/12\/07\/op-ed-columnist-the-real-generation-x-nytimescom\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T18:48:47","slug":"op-ed-columnist-the-real-generation-x-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2008\/12\/07\/op-ed-columnist-the-real-generation-x-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; The Real Generation X &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many people will tell Mr. Obama that taxing carbon or gasoline now is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nonstarter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wrong. It is the only starter. It is the game-changer. If you want to know where postponing it has gotten us, visit Detroit. No carbon tax or increased gasoline tax meant that every time the price of gasoline went down to $1 or $2 a gallon, consumers went back to buying gas guzzlers.<strong> And Detroit just fed their addictions<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so it never committed to a real energy-efficiency retooling of its fleet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/07\/opinion\/07friedman.html?em\">Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; The Real Generation X &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>emphasis mine. The stupid thing is that Ford, GM and Chrysler make more energy efficient cars for other markets! So where are those cars for America?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people will tell Mr. Obama that taxing carbon or gasoline now is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nonstarter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wrong. It is the only starter. It is the game-changer. If you want to know where postponing it has gotten us, visit Detroit. No carbon tax or increased gasoline tax meant that every time the price of gasoline went down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}