{"id":515559,"date":"2022-08-20T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T05:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515559"},"modified":"2022-08-20T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T06:45:57","slug":"mexico-sees-its-energy-future-in-fossil-fuels-not-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mexico-sees-its-energy-future-in-fossil-fuels-not-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Sees Its Energy Future in Fossil Fuels, Not Renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent scorching afternoon in his home state of Tabasco, the president of Mexico celebrated his government\u2019s latest triumph: a new oil refinery.<\/p>\n<p>Though not yet operational, President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador hailed the refinery as a centrepiece in his grand campaign to secure Mexico\u2019s energy independence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ignored the sirens\u2019 song, the voices that predicted, in good faith, perhaps, the end of the oil age and the massive arrival of electric cars and renewable energies,\u201d he told the cheering crowd. <\/p>\n<p>At a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the need to move away from fossil fuels that contribute to catastrophic climate change, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a global shift in the opposite direction, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent scorching afternoon in his home state of Tabasco, the president of Mexico celebrated his government\u2019s latest triumph: a new oil refinery. Though not yet operational, President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador hailed the refinery as a centrepiece in his grand campaign to secure Mexico\u2019s energy independence. \u201cWe ignored the sirens\u2019 song, the voices that predicted, in good faith, perhaps, the end of the oil age and the massive arrival of electric cars and renewable energies,\u201d he told the cheering crowd. At a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the need to move away from fossil fuels that [&hellip;]<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515559","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=515559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}