{"id":194626031,"date":"2011-03-03T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194626031"},"modified":"2011-03-03T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:47:11","slug":"green-cars-linked-to-increased-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194626031","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGreen\u201d Cars Linked to Increased Driving:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Angie Schmitt<br \/>\nTreeHugger reports that sustainability superstar Sweden has observed a pattern in its quest to become fossil fuel free by 2020. Emissions from the transportation sector rose by 100,000 tons last year despite a movement toward low-emissions vehicles. Researchers found that while purchases of \u201cgreen\u201d cars reduced emissions on a per-car basis, a rise in miles driven caused an overall increase in polluting byproducts. The Swedish Transport Agency had this to say about the trend: \u201cIt is clear that more effective motors and biofuels are not enough to offset increased traffic \u2014 at the most these can only stabilize emissions levels. To achieve cuts will require a change of direction in the development of society and infrastructure. The car must be less important in favor of increased public transport, cycling, rail transport, and shipping.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2011\/03\/02\/is-driving-on-the-decline-in-the-pacific-northwest\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2011\/03\/02\/is-driving-on-the-decline-in-the-pacific-northwest\/<\/a>oldId.20110303144711959<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Angie Schmitt TreeHugger reports that sustainability superstar Sweden has observed a pattern in its quest to become fossil fuel free by 2020. Emissions from the transportation sector rose by 100,000 tons last year despite a movement toward low-emissions vehicles. Researchers found that while purchases of \u201cgreen\u201d cars reduced emissions on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194626031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cGreen\u201d Cars Linked to Increased Driving:&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194626031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194626031","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=194626031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194626031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194626031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194626031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194626031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}