{"id":834,"date":"2008-08-06T02:38:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-08-06T02:38:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:38:01","slug":"8508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"8\/5\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been talk this week by both major candidates about energy policies&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_energy.html\">energy policy<\/a> calls for, among other things, \u00a0a dramatic shift to much more sacrifice and the development of renewable energy technologies, I said at a debate at the National Press Club in D.C. \u00a0 Anything less at this point, I believe, is akin to: \u00a0&#8220;rearranging deck chairs on the <em>Titanic<\/em>&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0 What do I mean by sacrifice? \u00a0 We would provide tax incentives for Americans to house share. \u00a0 When you share a home, you share heating, cooling, lighting&#8230; What&#8217;s more, you halve expenses so you have more discretionary money to install, say, \u00a0solar panels, wind turbines, and the like. \u00a0 On a campaign stop in Winnona, Minnesota, we learned that city has a &#8220;Home Share Program&#8221; that helps connect people who want to house share&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0House sharing \u00a0will also start to reverse urban sprawl, free up more money for social justice causes, exponentially enhance peoples&#8217; community building skills&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0During \u00a0a stop \u00a0Habitat for Humanity headquarters in \u00a0Americus, Georgia, we toured replicas of Third World homes, which, on average, are <em>much<\/em> \u00a0 smaller than American homes. \u00a0 Should we Americans be proud of this? \u00a0 Should we Americans feel &#8220;blessed&#8221; by this? \u00a0 Or should we Americans see all this additional space for what it really is? \u00a0 The sin of gluttony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been talk this week by both major candidates about energy policies&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0 Our energy policy calls for, among other things, \u00a0a dramatic shift to much more sacrifice and the development of renewable energy technologies, I said at <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=834\"><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-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}