{"id":345215,"date":"2026-02-02T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/2-days-left-to-comment-on-dots-plan-to-hike-us-fuel-costs-by-23b\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:12:46","slug":"2-days-left-to-comment-on-dots-plan-to-hike-us-fuel-costs-by-23b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/2-days-left-to-comment-on-dots-plan-to-hike-us-fuel-costs-by-23b\/","title":{"rendered":"2 days left to comment on DOT\u2019s plan to hike US fuel costs by $23B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/2-days-left-to-comment-on-dots-plan-to-hike-us-fuel-costs-by-23b.jpg\" \/>In December, the US Department of Transportation proposed a plan to make cars less efficient when Americans are already paying record-high energy bills during an affordability crisis fueled by tariff-driven inflation. That plan is still up for public comment, with comments ending in two days. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/02\/2-days-left-to-comment-on-dots-plan-to-hike-us-fuel-costs-by-23b\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/2-days-left-to-comment-on-dots-plan-to-hike-us-fuel-costs-by-23b\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":345216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}