{"id":90062,"date":"2013-03-16T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-03-16T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:11:16","slug":"obama-u-s-must-shift-cars-and-trucks-off-oil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/obama-u-s-must-shift-cars-and-trucks-off-oil-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll Take That $2 Billion In Small Bills\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/obama-us-must-shift-cars-and-trucks-off-oil.php?ref=fpb\">Obama: U.S. Must Shift Cars And Trucks Off Oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u201cThe only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices \u2014 the only way to break that cycle for good \u2014 is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil,\u201d the president said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Obama cast his proposal as not only a clean energy plan, but as one meant to create opportunities for economic growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The money would fund research on \u201cbreakthrough\u201d technologies such as batteries for electric cars and biofuels made from<strong> switch grass or other materials.<\/strong> Researchers also would look to improve use of natural gas as a fuel for cars and trucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Unfortunately, President Obama didn\u2019t mention that hemp was the best \u201cother material\u201d available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Please tell him to save the $2 Billion and support The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Short URL:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wh.gov\/wPIw\" target=\"_top\">http:\/\/wh.gov\/wPIw<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama: U.S. Must Shift Cars And Trucks Off Oil. \u201cThe only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices \u2014 the only way to break that cycle for good \u2014 is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/obama-u-s-must-shift-cars-and-trucks-off-oil-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}