{"id":744,"date":"2008-12-02T04:25:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/can-a-car-ever-be-green\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:16","slug":"can-a-car-ever-be-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/can-a-car-ever-be-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Car Ever Be Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/plug-in-hybrid.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idUKL0671323420070906?pageNumber=1&amp;virtualBrandChannel=0&amp;sp=true\">Norway says, &#8220;No!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I think I have to agree with them.  <\/p>\n<p>No matter what, using a car to move you around does not make that much sense.  If it is just you, driving to work, wouldn&#8217;t a bus with a bunch of other people be cleaner?  <\/p>\n<p>If it is just you, shopping, couldn&#8217;t you do that near your home and walk or even online?<\/p>\n<p>But what about travel, the family vacation, the memories of being in a car from Ohio to Florida, one Holiday Inn after another.  Four younger siblings.  &#8220;Are we there yet?&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t make me stop this car!&#8221; echoing against the windows. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think travel can ever be green.  And that is a shame.  I love travel.  Driving across country or even just exploring neighboring countryside.  But none of that is green.  In a way, most of what people do is not green, just be definition. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#300--> <\/p>\n<p>Right now, I am listening to the radio, having my dishwasher run, typing this on a computer, and there are two lights on.  What is green about any of that?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I could have more lights on, I could even have a TV on in another room.  My heat could be going full blast. So I AM greener than I could be.  But I am not green. <\/p>\n<p>What is the right balance between living and using resources right now and preserving them, conserving them, reserving them for the next generations?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway says, &#8220;No!&#8221; And I think I have to agree with them. No matter what, using a car to move you around does not make that much sense. If it is just you, driving to work, wouldn&#8217;t a bus with a bunch of other people be cleaner? If it is just you, shopping, couldn&#8217;t you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,20,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-consumption","category-green-politics","category-green-tips","category-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9738,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}