{"id":2441495,"date":"2019-03-08T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/progress-and-keeping-up\/"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:25:29","slug":"progress-and-keeping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/progress-and-keeping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress and keeping up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb, the most common lamp was fueled by whale oil. The light bulb took off like a skyrocket and soon the whale oil lamps were nothing but a novelty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That dry-docked many whaling ships and put a lot of whalers out of work. Did the government continue to support the whaling industry so the whalers wouldn\u2019t have to switch vocations? No, everyone understood that\u2019s the way progress works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Today, renewables are replacing fossil fuels as an energy source because they\u2019re cheaper, safer and don\u2019t damage the climate. That\u2019s gonna put a lot of fossil fuel industry workers out of work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So should the government subsidize coal, oil and natural gas and impede renewables with actions like tariffs on solar panels so the workers don\u2019t have to switch vocations? No, that\u2019s not the way progress works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFor he that gets hurt<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Will be he who has stalled\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 Bob Dylan<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/progress-and-keeping-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb, the most common lamp was fueled by whale oil. The light bulb took off like a skyrocket and soon the whale oil lamps were nothing but a novelty. That dry-docked many whaling ships and put a lot of whalers out of work. Did the government continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:18:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}