{"id":1286,"date":"2012-04-17T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-04-17T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:55:48","slug":"easing-off-the-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/easing-off-the-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing Off the Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2012\/04\/easing-off-the-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Original article by Tom Murphy<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do the Math<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Another great article from Tom Murphy&#8217;s brilliant blog, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do the Math<\/a>&#8221; where he uses critical quantitative thinking to approach our energy challenges and policies. Here he\u00a0 discusses adaptations that will have an immediate impact on transportation and liquid fuels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>&#8211; Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Again, I come to the conclusion that one thing we <em>can<\/em> do\u2014totally under our own control\u2014is to reduce our demand of liquid fuels faster than the naturally-imposed decline rate. And again, I look for <strong>factor-of-two<\/strong> level solutions, rather than piddly few-percent window-dressing. Let\u2019s kick this problem in the teeth!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2012\/04\/easing-off-the-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article by Tom Murphy, at Do the Math Another great article from Tom Murphy&#8217;s brilliant blog, &#8220;Do the Math&#8221; where he uses critical quantitative thinking to approach our energy challenges and policies. Here he\u00a0 discusses adaptations that will have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/easing-off-the-gas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6838,6846,6826,6844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-transport","category-car-ownership","category-costs","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}