{"id":472699,"date":"2022-03-03T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472699"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:36:46","slug":"why-100-a-barrel-oil-could-be-bad-for-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-100-a-barrel-oil-could-be-bad-for-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why $100 a barrel oil could be bad for energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With oil costing more than $100 a barrel, and Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine underscoring the risk of relying on fossil fuel, it would seem like a great time to speed up the transition away from the polluting fuel. The reality isn\u2019t so simple. <\/p>\n<p>Public support for climate action is higher than ever in most countries, but that doesn\u2019t ease the economic pain when everything from food to transport gets more costly. \u201cThis is an unfortunate downside of the economy we\u2019ve got that runs on fossil fuels,\u201d said Charlie Donovan, a visiting professor of finance at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With oil costing more than $100 a barrel, and Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine underscoring the risk of relying on fossil fuel, it would seem like a great time to speed up the transition away from the polluting fuel. The reality isn\u2019t so simple. Public support for climate action is higher than ever in most countries, but that doesn\u2019t ease the economic pain when everything from food to transport gets more costly. \u201cThis is an unfortunate downside of the economy we\u2019ve got that runs on fossil fuels,\u201d said Charlie Donovan, a visiting professor of finance at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}