{"id":15,"date":"2008-06-24T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-06-24T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:39:31","slug":"oil-and-us-friedman-gets-it-right-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Oil and Us: Friedman gets it right (for once)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/heavyoil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18\" title=\"heavyoil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/heavyoil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Thomas Friedman of the New York Times\u00a0 today on the matter.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t think much of some of his other opinions I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/22\/opinion\/22friedman.html?em&amp;ex=1214280000&amp;en=73e9f3e466cb979e&amp;ei=5087%0A\">this<\/a> piece by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times very much aligned to my own thinking.\u00a0 At some point or another we will have to come to terms with actually conserving energy.\u00a0 In the meantime, however, there is a game going on, and the world consumer is a participant, whether we like it or not.\u00a0 Things you can do to not play include these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t travel<\/li>\n<li>Telecommute<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use air conditioning<\/li>\n<li>Live in a house or apartment with good insulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was about 29\u00b0C outside and 23\u00b0 inside my home office as I wrote this post.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a little piece of humor I alluded to earlier: we have two gas guzzling cars, but how much does it matter if you don&#8217;t drive them?\u00a0 That first bullet is hard for me and for our family, with relatives and friends so far away.\u00a0 My recollection is that an efficient airplane gets you about 20-30 passenger miles per gallon of fuel.\u00a0 As I travel to New Hampshire this week that will be a round trip distance of over 7,500 miles, which equates to about 250 gallons of fuel.\u00a0 Put another way, I normally use about 13 gallons of fuel per month in my car, and so one plane trip to the United States is greater than my entire year&#8217;s use of gasoline.\u00a0 This is one of five trips I&#8217;ll make across the pond this year, nevermind those we&#8217;ve caused relatives to make.\u00a0 I&#8217;m as bad as the next person, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Friedman of the New York Times\u00a0 today on the matter.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t think much of some of his other opinions I found this piece by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times very much aligned to my own thinking.\u00a0 At some point or another we will have to come to terms with actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil and Us: Friedman gets it right (for once)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-us","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}