{"id":163696705,"date":"2010-03-10T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=163696705"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:18:25","slug":"fuel-tax-increase-necessary-to-cut-transportation-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=163696705","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Tax Increase Necessary to Cut Transportation Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nRaising the price of gas to $7 per gallon may be necessary to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s 2020 targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent, says a new report from Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.<br \/>\nThe report posits that reducing oil consumption and carbon emissions from transportation will be more difficult than previously assumed.  It will require substantially higher fuel prices, ideally in combination with more stringent efficiency standards.<br \/>\nAdditionally, the study concludes that relying on subsidies for electric or hybrid vehicles \u2013 often the politically attractive option \u2013 is an ineffective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near term.<br \/>\n\u201cTax credits don\u2019t address how much people use their cars,\u201d said Ross Morrow, one of the report\u2019s authors. \u201cIn reverse, they can make people drive more.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thecityfix.com\/fuel-tax-increase-necessary-to-cut-transportation-emissions\/\">https:\/\/thecityfix.com\/fuel-tax-increase-necessary-to-cut-transportation-emissions\/<\/a>oldId.20100310151825605<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Raising the price of gas to $7 per gallon may be necessary to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s 2020 targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent, says a new report from Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The report posits that reducing oil consumption and carbon emissions from transportation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=163696705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fuel Tax Increase Necessary to Cut Transportation Emissions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163696705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163696705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163696705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163696705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163696705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163696705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163696705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}