{"id":2333,"date":"2009-03-26T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2009-03-26T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:01:46","slug":"from-the-are-you-serious-files-california-to-outlaw-black-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/03\/26\/from-the-are-you-serious-files-california-to-outlaw-black-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"From “The Are You Serious?” Files: “California to Outlaw Black Cars”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s something political this time with some tech and science angle. I first discovered the news through Digg.com<\/a> and thought that it must be a story from The Onion<\/a>. Well, it is not!<\/p>\n

It is an article from DC Republican Examiner (examiner.com<\/a>) titled “California to Outlaw Black Cars.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Pretty sure that April 1st is just around the corner, I hope that this is some kind of joke.<\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

You see, you thoughtless dark car owners are killing the planet because your car uses too much energy to cool the passengers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In theory, darker color materials tend to absorb more heat. For a car, does it really make that much difference in terms of energy consumptions to cool the cabin if the color of the car is dark (read black)?<\/p>\n

What’s next? We should have all the road painted to less-heat-absorbing-color then. No more asphalts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s something political this time with some tech and science angle. I first discovered the news through Digg.com and thought that it must be a story from The Onion. Well, it is not! It is an article from DC Republican Examiner (examiner.com) titled “California to Outlaw Black Cars.” Pretty sure that April 1st is just … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “From “The Are You Serious?” Files: “California to Outlaw Black Cars””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4,6],"tags":[589,625,719,2009,2366,2626,936],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-california","tag-cars","tag-colors","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}