{"id":2522,"date":"2012-09-06T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:14:42","slug":"obamas-rescue-of-the-auto-industry-starts-to-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/obamas-rescue-of-the-auto-industry-starts-to-pay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Rescue of the Auto Industry Starts to Pay Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Speaking of things that President Obama\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos\/la-fi-auto-sales-20120905,0,1175087.story\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t get enough credit for:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 2em 0px; line-height: 1.8em; padding-left: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; padding-left: 20px;\">Total auto sales for the month were just under 1.3 million, 19.9% higher than a year earlier.\u00a0<strong>That would put the annual pace at 14.5 million vehicles, the best of any month since the federal &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; economic stimulus program in August 2009 and a rate 2 million vehicles ahead of August 2011&#8217;s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.8em 0px; padding-left: 20px;\">&#8230;.Fuel-efficient vehicles were especially good sellers as gas prices neared or crossed $4 a gallon in much of the nation. Sales of Toyota&#8217;s Prius hybrid more than doubled to more than 21,000 vehicles&#8230;.General Motors Co. said its Chevrolet passenger car sales jumped 25%, with gas sippers such as the Spark, Sonic, Cruze and Volt plug-in hybrid all posting their best-ever monthly sales.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/09\/obamas-rescue-auto-industry-starts-pay\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s Rescue of the Auto Industry Starts to Pay Off | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of things that President Obama\u00a0doesn&#8217;t get enough credit for: Total auto sales for the month were just under 1.3 million, 19.9% higher than a year earlier.\u00a0That would put the annual pace at 14.5 million vehicles, the best of any month since the federal &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; economic stimulus program in August 2009 and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,20],"tags":[1436,1234,1435,897],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}