{"id":542196,"date":"2010-04-23T17:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2010-04-23T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:34:49","slug":"poll-and-glass-of-water-show-it-is-the-chinese-who-live-in-the-land-of-the-free-not-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542196","title":{"rendered":"Poll and Glass of Water Show it is the Chinese Who Live in the Land of the Free, Not Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Kerrys_Glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8713\" title=\"Kerry's_Glass\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Kerrys_Glass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYesterday when Senator John Kerry was begging the polluters who actually run this country not to be mean about the new  energy bill he is attempting to thread through the tiny Senate needle of their opposition, he told a very illustrative story about  the widening gap between the US and China. On a pre-climate-bill-release <a href=\"http:\/\/wecanlead.org\/\" >We Can Lead<\/a> phone call, he described being extremely  dismayed by a glass of water.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry was on a high speed train in China, and the glass of water on his  table was perfectly stable at 300 miles an hour. By contrast, as he  pointed out, our piddly little old underfunded Amtrack just veers about  on its ancient old tracks, voted in decades before filibusters killed  good governance. We are falling behind our main competitor  technologically in a kind of massive infrastructure failure.<\/p>\n<p>A poll out today from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ey.com\/Publication\/vwLUAssets\/News_release_-_Chinese_consumers_lead_the_world_in_electric_vehicle_interest%28English%29\/$FILE\/Press%20Release%20-%20en.pdf\">Ernst &amp; Young\u2019s Global  Automotive Center<\/a> shows why.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/23\/poll-and-glass-of-water-show-it-is-the-chinese-who-live-in-the-land-of-the-free-not-americans\/#more-8710\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday when Senator John Kerry was begging the polluters who actually run this country not to be mean about the new energy bill he is attempting to thread through the tiny Senate needle of their opposition, he told a very illustrative story about the widening gap between the US and China. On a pre-climate-bill-release We [&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-542196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542196","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=542196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}