{"id":2655,"date":"2022-06-17T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2022-06-18T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:01:34","slug":"2655","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Higher gas prices, lower emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mustang.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>&#8217;66 Mustang   &#8230;photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The average price of gas in 1966 in America (the year this Mustang was manufactured) was 32 cents a gallon, the equivalent of $2.20 today.  The average price of gas in America this week <strong>just topped $5 a gallon.<\/strong>  Your average American, in turn, is having to be smarter about traveling.  Less trips, more &#8216;staycations,&#8217; if you will.  When they do go to, say, the grocery store, they now go with a thorough list, so they don&#8217;t have to make another trip just for, like, the mayonnaise they forgot.  (The Amish are great at that in regard to taking the buggy to the market once a week.)  If, in fact, <strong>global warming <\/strong>is real &#8212; which I happen to believe it is &#8212; then these conservation measures, including more walking, bicycling, and so on, can only be good.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  For more on our transportation position paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/transportation\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average price of gas in 1966 in America (the year this Mustang was manufactured) was 32 cents a gallon, the equivalent of $2.20 today. The average price of gas in America this week just topped $5 a gallon. Your <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2655\"><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-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}