{"id":474643,"date":"2010-03-25T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:05:23","slug":"where-more-people-might-switch-to-solar-powered-electric-cars-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474643","title":{"rendered":"Where More People Might Switch to Solar-Powered Electric Cars, and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/03\/Gas_Percent_of_East_Bay_Income_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7644\" title=\"Gas_Percent_of_East_Bay_Income_2008\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/03\/Gas_Percent_of_East_Bay_Income_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEver wondered what percent of your income now goes to buying gasoline?  In some areas, gas is now over a third of household income. That brings  getting to work and back on fossil fuels almost as expensive as  keeping a roof over your head. (Ideally, a mortgage should not be over a third of your income.)<\/p>\n<p>A vast new mapping tool put out by the <a href=\"http:\/\/htaindex.cnt.org\/\">Housing  and Transportation  Affordability Index<\/a> lets you zoom in on your neighborhood to see a  great many indices of housing and transportation affordability in a  series of interactive maps, that you can set to see a great deal of data  that assess the costs of living in various regions, in various ways.<\/p>\n<p>The site is a vast treasure trove of information. I just checked out one comparison:<\/p>\n<p>I mapped (<a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/25\/where-more-people-might-switch-to-solar-powered-electric-cars-and-why\/\" >link<\/a>) the cost of gas over the last eight years in the East Bay, and  found just how much more it costs to live in the suburbs here than  close to cities, for driving, in my area.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/25\/where-more-people-might-switch-to-solar-powered-electric-cars-and-why\/#more-7645\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=_h8BB2ix0gA:9fE8YyF0dKQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/_h8BB2ix0gA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what percent of your income now goes to buying gasoline? In some areas, gas is now over a third of household income. That brings getting to work and back on fossil fuels almost as expensive as keeping a roof over your head. (Ideally, a mortgage should not be over a third of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}