{"id":652,"date":"2010-09-27T06:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2010-09-27T06:17:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:17:32","slug":"thomas-friedman-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/thomas-friedman-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman on the Value of Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Friedman&#8217;s article in the New York Times Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/26\/opinion\/26friedman.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\">Their Moon Shot and Ours<\/a>, bemoans the lack of focus on some important long-term (&#8220;moon shot&#8221;) US goals. By comparison, China has four big infrastructure goals, including a focus on electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman, who visited an electric car plant in China recently, makes a compelling case for an expanded focus on the electric car industry. For one thing, he says, &#8220;the country that replaces gasoline-powered vehicles with  electric-powered vehicles  \u2014  in an age of steadily rising oil prices  and steadily falling battery prices  \u2014  will have a huge cost advantage  and independence from imported oil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A first step, according to Friedman, is to provide consumer incentive to encourage the electric car market: specifically, raise the price of gasoline. &#8220;Europe is using $7-a-gallon gasoline to stimulate the market for  electric cars; China is using $5-a-gallon and naming electric cars as  one of the industrial pillars for its five-year growth plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/26\/opinion\/26friedman.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\">Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Their Moon Shot and Ours &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Friedman&#8217;s article in the New York Times Saturday, Their Moon Shot and Ours, bemoans the lack of focus on some important long-term (&#8220;moon shot&#8221;) US goals. By comparison, China has four big infrastructure goals, including a focus on electric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}