{"id":2211,"date":"2006-02-28T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2006-02-28T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T07:04:51","slug":"do_americans_su","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Do Americans Support a Gas Tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2006\/02\/do_amercians_su.html\">Barry Ritholtz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;A significant number would go along with an increase if it reduced global warming or made the United States less dependent on foreign oil, according to the latest New York Times\/CBS News poll.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide telephone poll, conducted Wednesday through Sunday, suggested that a gasoline tax increase that brought measurable results would be acceptable to a majority of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Bush administration nor Democratic Party leaders make that distinction. Both are opposed to increasing the gasoline tax as a means of discouraging consumption, although President Bush, in recent speeches, has called for the development of alternative energy to reduce dependence on foreign oil.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Ritholtz: &#8220;A significant number would go along with an increase if it reduced global warming or made the United States less dependent on foreign oil, according to the latest New York Times\/CBS News poll. The nationwide telephone poll, conducted Wednesday through Sunday, suggested that a gasoline tax increase that brought measurable results would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}