{"id":699,"date":"2008-04-27T00:42:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/27\/american-auto\/"},"modified":"2008-04-27T00:42:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T04:42:16","slug":"american-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/27\/american-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"American Auto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with American auto companies and so utterly failing with hybrids? Gas it $3.50\/gallon and up right now as I post this. There&#8217;s a big green movement. In short, people really care about getting halfway decent gas mileage.<\/p>\n<p>So American auto finally got with the program and offered a couple hybrids. The Ford Escape hybrid, for a long time, was the only one. Tree-huggers and penny-pinchers alike can&#8230;. uhh&#8230;. marvel at the utter contradiction that is a hybrid SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Chevy didn&#8217;t want to be left out, so they joined. Except that seem to have missed the memo even more. Calling it the &#8220;Green Car of hte Year,&#8221; they introduced &#8220;America&#8217;s first full-size hybrid SUV.&#8221; It gas mileage is exactly the same as my non-hybrid Toyota Highlander: 20-22 MPG.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, guys?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with American auto companies and so utterly failing with hybrids? Gas it $3.50\/gallon and up right now as I post this. There&#8217;s a big green movement. In short, people really care about getting halfway decent gas mileage. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/27\/american-auto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,11,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ideas","category-insanity","category-living","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}