{"id":1384,"date":"2009-06-30T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2009-06-30T06:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:55:41","slug":"raise-the-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/06\/30\/raise-the-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"raise the gas tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobloggreen.com\/2009\/06\/29\/no-fluke-new-survey-finds-4-gas-is-the-tipping-point\/#comments\">No fluke: new survey finds $4 gas is the tipping point<\/a>: &#8220;The survey found that if gas were to shoot to over $4 a gallon again, 40 percent of car shoppers would &#8216;consider purchasing a new fuel-efficient car right away.&#8217; About the same amount, 41 percent, said that $4 gas would make them choose a &#8216;more efficient car the next time they were ready to buy a car.&#8217; Even at $3.75, 29 percent of car shoppers thought buying a more efficient car &#8216;right away&#8217; was the right move. Takeaway point: when gas prices go up, people will want to have greener cars. The question is what kinds of vehicles will be available then the inevitable happens. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobloggreen.com\">AutoblogGreen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again. We need a gas tax that establishes a price floor for a gallon of gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fluke: new survey finds $4 gas is the tipping point: &#8220;The survey found that if gas were to shoot to over $4 a gallon again, 40 percent of car shoppers would &#8216;consider purchasing a new fuel-efficient car right away.&#8217; About the same amount, 41 percent, said that $4 gas would make them choose a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","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=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}