{"id":437,"date":"2002-03-14T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/good-mileage-who-needs-it\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:24:44","slug":"good-mileage-who-needs-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/good-mileage-who-needs-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Good mileage? Who needs it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16419,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A23674-2002Mar13.html?referer=email&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, so much for getting cars with better mileage and less dependence on oil and gasoline.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Senate yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A23674-2002Mar13.html?referer=email\" title=\"I guess oil and greed are really what makes the world go 'round.\">defeated an effort to increase fuel efficiency standards<\/a> for cars, sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks by 50 percent over 13 years, voting instead for a measure &#8212; backed by the auto industry &#8212; that would give the Bush administration two years to develop its own mileage rules&#8230;. Yesterday&#8217;s Senate action &#8212; which included passage of a measure to exempt pickup trucks from any new fuel economy standards &#8212; followed an intensive lobbying and advertising campaign by the auto industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate yesterday defeated an effort to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars, sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks, voting instead for a measure that would give the Bush administration two years to develop its own mileage rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}