{"id":5242,"date":"2010-06-29T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2010-07-11T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T19:40:21","slug":"everyone-knows-except-the-experts-national-review-06-29-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/everyone-knows-except-the-experts-national-review-06-29-10","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everyone Knows&#8217; . . . Except the Experts (National Review, 06.29.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit \u2014 The Detroit News has seen a regular flow of congressional and gubernatorial candidates this primary season, and it\u2019s become a standard Democratic talking point to worry about declining gas-tax revenue \u2014 because \u201ceveryone knows that the auto fleet is transitioning to electrics.\u201d Well, only if the pols outlaw the internal-combustion engine.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here\u2019s a recent exchange between longtime industry watchers Peter De Lorenzo and John McElroy\u2019s on the latter\u2019s radio program, \u201cAfter Hours\u201d:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>De Lorenzo: Everyone\u2019s jumping the electric car train, but that train\u2019s pretty short. There are a few fops in Silicon Valley who gotta have an electric car. But is 50 percent of the fleet going to be electric? No way.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>McElroy: Wait until people say, \u2018I got to wait how many hours to recharge?\u2019<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit \u2014 The Detroit News has seen a regular flow of congressional and gubernatorial candidates this primary season, and it\u2019s become a standard Democratic talking point to worry about declining gas-tax revenue \u2014 because \u201ceveryone knows that the auto fleet is transitioning to electrics.\u201d Well, only if the pols outlaw the internal-combustion engine. Here\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}