{"id":1189,"date":"2014-05-26T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2014-05-26T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:03:56","slug":"memorial-day-2014-as-much-a-soapbox-as-youll-ever-see-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/soap-box\/memorial-day-2014-as-much-a-soapbox-as-youll-ever-see-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2014&#8230; (as much a soapbox as you&#8217;ll ever see from me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-49483645-1', 'pascual.co');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never really given much thought to our addiction to Oil and Gas.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, I joined the rEVolution because I had a few goals initially:<\/p>\n<li>I wanted to get on the HOV lane by myself. After all, time is money.<\/li>\n<li>The EVs that we&#8217;ve chosen for our garage are all pretty fun to drive.\n<\/li>\n<li>and lastly, I save a lot of money on my cost per mile. (and maintenance).<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p>That was it&#8230;  Not really anything &#8220;enlightened&#8221; about it.  All pretty much self interest and lots of it.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t fundamentally changed.  I am still pretty much the same self-interested, profit minded person that I have been.  However, after all the years being involved with my many new environmental friends, I&#8217;ve grown from being a &#8220;Climate Agnostic&#8221; to someone who accepts it and helps a little.<\/p>\n<p>I had called myself a Climate Agnostic because, I didn&#8217;t really care.  At the end of it all, it didn&#8217;t matter to me whether or not Climate Change was occurring.  Now, I do care and am doing a little to help stop the change.  Driving electric and installing solar are a few of the things, and trying to convince others to do the same is another.  I have always taken the economic route, because that is the route that got me here.<\/p>\n<p>Spolier alert, I&#8217;ve figured driving electric after installing my solar panels that it costs me approximately a penny a mile vs. fifteen to eighteen cents a mile or even a quarter to thirty cents a mile depending on which of my ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars I&#8217;m driving.<\/p>\n<p>But why am I posting today, well, it&#8217;s to refer you to a post that made me stop and think.  This post is from about two years ago, very early on my journey in the rEVolution.  At that time, I kept up on things regarding my Active E by reading Tom Moloughney&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/activeemobility.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/memorial-day-and-electric-cars.html\">and his Memorial Day post<\/a> was one that helped me think about the effects of our addiction to Oil and Gas.  I try not to be political on my blog because it&#8217;s not really me.  I prefer a <em>laissez-faire<\/em> attitude between government and business&#8230;  And you can guess where I lie in that process.  However, it is often not the case that the government leaves business alone, and I, these past two years, around Memorial Day, think of Tom&#8217;s post and thought that I&#8217;d do my part in having my reader&#8217;s look at something that moved me.<\/p>\n<p>And if you, dear reader, served in protecting my freedom to express myself, I appreciate that which you did and do.  Furthermore I hope that we don&#8217;t have to send you in harms way just to feed our addiction to oil and gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never really given much thought to our addiction to Oil and Gas. As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, I joined the rEVolution because I had a few goals initially: I wanted to get on the HOV lane by myself. After all, time is money. The EVs that we&#8217;ve chosen for our garage are all pretty fun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/soap-box\/memorial-day-2014-as-much-a-soapbox-as-youll-ever-see-from-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial Day 2014&#8230; (as much a soapbox as you&#8217;ll ever see from me)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[211,212,505,686],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap-box","tag-climate-agnostic","tag-climate-change","tag-memorial-day","tag-soap-box"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}