{"id":1125,"date":"2018-10-05T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/10\/05\/3-reasons-not-to-play-favorites-to-evs-boone-pickens\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:04:00","slug":"3-reasons-not-to-play-favorites-to-evs-boone-pickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-reasons-not-to-play-favorites-to-evs-boone-pickens\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons not to play favorites to EVs | Boone Pickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In explaining how Texas Commission Environmental Quality should utilize Volkswagen emmissions funds, 3 reasons against the agency proposal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TCEQ is following the EPA&#8217;s favoritism for electic vehicle by offering\u00a0funding up to 60 percent\n<ul>\n<li>government shouldnt pick winners and losers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Texas should use its own resources to achieve clean air- and that&#8217;s natural gas vehicles<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;TCEQ should allow grantees to buy a vehicle to scrap&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/20181004\/commentary-on-even-field-no-case-to-play-favorites-with-electric-vehicles\">Austin American Statesman | T Boone Pickens | Commentary: On an even field, no case ot play favorites with electric vehicles<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>\u00a0<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In explaining how Texas Commission Environmental Quality should utilize Volkswagen emmissions funds, 3 reasons against the agency proposal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TCEQ is following the EPA&#8217;s favoritism for electic vehicle by offering\u00a0funding up to 60 percent\n<ul>\n<li>government shouldnt pick winners and losers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Texas should use its own resources to achieve clean air- and that&#8217;s natural gas vehicles<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;TCEQ should allow grantees to buy a vehicle to scrap&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/20181004\/commentary-on-even-field-no-case-to-play-favorites-with-electric-vehicles\">Austin American Statesman | T Boone Pickens | Commentary: On an\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-motor-vehicles","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}