{"id":203440889,"date":"2011-06-13T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=203440889"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:21:29","slug":"gm-ceo-we-ought-to-just-slap-a-dollar-tax-on-a-gallon-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=203440889","title":{"rendered":"GM CEO: \u201cWe Ought to Just Slap a Dollar Tax on a Gallon of Gas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nAkerson told The Detroit News that, rather than have the government incrementally increase fuel efficiency standards over the next several years, \u201cYou know what I\u2019d rather have them do \u2014 this will make my Republican friends puke \u2014 as gas is going to go down here now, we ought to just slap a 50-cent or a dollar tax on a gallon of gas.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPeople will start buying more Cruzes and they will start buying less Suburbans,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAkerson isn\u2019t the first representative of a major U.S. automaker to come out in favor of a higher gas tax&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/06\/08\/gm-ceo-we-ought-to-just-slap-a-dollar-tax-on-a-gallon-of-gas\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/06\/08\/gm-ceo-we-ought-to-just-slap-a-dollar-tax-on-a-gallon-of-gas\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Akerson told The Detroit News that, rather than have the government incrementally increase fuel efficiency standards over the next several years, \u201cYou know what I\u2019d rather have them do \u2014 this will make my Republican friends puke \u2014 as gas is going to go down here now, we ought to just slap a 50-cent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=203440889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GM CEO: \u201cWe Ought to Just Slap a Dollar Tax on a Gallon of Gas\u201d&#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-203440889","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\/203440889","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=203440889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203440889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203440889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203440889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203440889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}