{"id":675036,"date":"2010-02-24T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-hummer-to-hum-along-no-more\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:57:43","slug":"hummer-to-hum-along-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675036","title":{"rendered":"Hummer to hum along no more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><strong>Crash course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>General Motors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/25\/business\/25hummer.html?hp\">has decided to park the ultimate gas guzzler in that big garage in the sky<\/a>. GM thought its plans to sell Hummer to a Chinese company had the green light, but got run off the road this week by the Chinese government, ironically, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-25-chinese-pollution-concerns-dash-hummer-deal-analysts-say\/\">over fears of pollution<\/a>. Enviros who say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuh2.com\/index.php\">fuH2<\/a> may be cheering, but what will they make fun of now?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The pearly garage doors may not have shut on Hummer quite yet, as <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704479404575087542024902992.html?KEYWORDS=hummer\">two previously shunned suitors have come a-callin&#8217; to GM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blmurch\/\"><\/a>Photo: blmurch via Flickr<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-25-hop-on-the-bus-texters\/\">Hop on the bus, texters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-25-british-airways-plans-to-get-wasted-on-future-flights\/\">British Airways plans to get wasted on future flights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-25-chinese-pollution-concerns-dash-hummer-deal-analysts-say\/\">Chinese pollution concerns dash Hummer deal, analysts say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=16dd06723fd7d5cf0c0078a99a57b53e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=16dd06723fd7d5cf0c0078a99a57b53e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun Crash course General Motors has decided to park the ultimate gas guzzler in that big garage in the sky. GM thought its plans to sell Hummer to a Chinese company had the green light, but got run off the road this week by the Chinese government, ironically, over fears of pollution. Enviros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PBG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}