{"id":6361,"date":"2020-12-03T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2020-12-03T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:27:12","slug":"aston-martin-in-row-over-sock-puppet-pr-firm-pushing-anti-electric-vehicle-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/aston-martin-in-row-over-sock-puppet-pr-firm-pushing-anti-electric-vehicle-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin in row over &#8216;sock puppet PR firm&#8217; pushing anti-electric vehicle study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/dec\/02\/aston-martin-pr-firm-anti-electric-vehicle-study\">Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Aston Martin is at the centre of a climate lobbying controversy after a study co-commissioned by the company that cast doubt on the green credentials of electric vehicles was found to have been attributed to a PR company registered to the wife of a director at the luxury carmaker. The study, which has since been widely debunked by experts, was presented as \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d third-party research and appeared to show that electric cars would have to travel as far as 50,000 miles before matching the carbon footprint of a petrol model.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Aston Martin is at the centre of a climate lobbying controversy after a study co-commissioned by the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,466,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-energy","category-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}