{"id":469,"date":"2008-03-03T00:55:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T04:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/03\/pc-government-drops-eco-rebate\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T00:57:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T04:57:47","slug":"pc-government-drops-eco-rebate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/pc-government-drops-eco-rebate\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Government Drops Eco Rebate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PCs announced this eco-friendly rebate program two years ago but failed to do their homework and included the Toyota Yaris and not the segment rival the Honda Fit.<\/p>\n<p>For want of a tenth of a liter they cut out the Honda Fit, a very eco-friendly car.  Apparently they&#8217;ve given-up and instead pledged research money ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/03\/02\/automakers-win-canada-dropping-ecoauto-rebate-program\/\">www.autoblog.com<\/a> )  I like to encourage eco-friendly cars, but as I pointed out in my blog posting when it came out (<a href=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/21\/conservative-auto-rebate-plan-affront-to-nature-and-market\/\">Conservative auto rebate plan affront to nature and market<\/a>), I don&#8217;t think the PC&#8217;s want to be known for distorting the make.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hopping the re-purposed $250 million pledged to the auto industry for the development and research of environmentally-friendly technologies will be more effective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PCs announced this eco-friendly rebate program two years ago but failed to do their homework and included the Toyota Yaris and not the segment rival the Honda Fit. For want of a tenth of a liter they cut out the Honda Fit, a very eco-friendly car. Apparently they&#8217;ve given-up and instead pledged research money&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/pc-government-drops-eco-rebate\/\">Continue Reading<span> PC Government Drops Eco Rebate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}