{"id":1987,"date":"2019-11-08T00:51:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2019-11-08T00:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T00:56:52","slug":"mpg-mass-pollution-gauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"mpg&#8230; mass pollution gauge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vw_beetle_buying_guide-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vw_beetle_buying_guide-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vw_beetle_buying_guide-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vw_beetle_buying_guide-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vw_beetle_buying_guide-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vw_beetle_buying_guide.jpg 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>                                                                                                   Volkswagen Beetle Buying Guide photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last week, I&#8217;ve interviewed two people who have a Volkswagen Beetle and a Smart car, respectively.  The Beetle gets 30 mpg, highway.  The Smart car gets 45 mpg, highway.  Now on this climate change thing&#8230; Bernie Sanders, for instance, is decrying &#8220;big oil.&#8221;  Ha!  Whose creating the demand for the oil?  Uh, us.  Our vehicle choices (sans the Beetle\/Smart cars) are, oh, not the best.  What&#8217;s more, our driving habits aren&#8217;t either.  Read: gluttonous.  The reason Sanders isn&#8217;t saying that is because he wants your votes, but isn&#8217;t necessarily too concerned about your souls.  Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/transportation\">transportation policy<\/a> , based on years of cross country research, is concerned about your souls &#8212; not to mention the planet&#8217;s longevity.  I mean, what kind of parent would want to leave a world of climate chaos to their children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last week, I&#8217;ve interviewed two people who have a Volkswagen Beetle and a Smart car, respectively. The Beetle gets 30 mpg, highway. The Smart car gets 45 mpg, highway. Now on this climate change thing&#8230; Bernie Sanders, for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1987\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}