{"id":5151,"date":"2009-07-23T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2009-07-23T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T11:02:12","slug":"the_problem_with_the_way_you_cast_yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/the_problem_with_the_way_you_cast_yourself.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With The Way You Cast Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem when you cast yourself as a scold, er, worldwide environmental leader, is that you open yourself up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/07\/23\/2009-07-23_bloomies_suvs_sit__idling.html\">charges of hypocrisy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In just the past week, the city-owned SUVS that hustle hizzoner around the city were timed idling from 10 minutes to more than an hour eight times, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg strengthened the city&#8217;s anti-idling law earlier this year, allowing just three minutes of idling. Environmentalists praised the law as the nation&#8217;s toughest. But the Mayor&#8217;s SUVs are exempt from the law because they are considered emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re doing our best,&#8221; to reduce idling, Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser insisted, noting the SUV&#8217;s are supposed to park in the shade so engines don&#8217;t have to run the air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the vehicles were clocked in mild temperatures last week and were parked in the shade &#8212; but the engines were still on.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem when you cast yourself as a scold, er, worldwide environmental leader, is that you open yourself up to charges of hypocrisy: In just the past week, the city-owned SUVS that hustle hizzoner around the city were timed idling from 10 minutes to more than an hour eight times, The Associated Press reported. Bloomberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5152,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}