{"id":348299,"date":"2026-03-11T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/a-reminder-as-oil-prices-spike-evs-are-the-1-route-to-energy-independence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:35:43","slug":"a-reminder-as-oil-prices-spike-evs-are-the-1-route-to-energy-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/a-reminder-as-oil-prices-spike-evs-are-the-1-route-to-energy-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder as oil prices spike: EVs are the #1 route to energy independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/a-reminder-as-oil-prices-spike-evs-are-the-1-route-to-energy-independence.png\" \/>With the news of the US and Israel\u2019s actions in Iran in the last ten days, which caused oil prices to surge by +50%, we are reminded again of how reducing oil demand can lead to less conflict and more energy independence \u2013 and electric vehicles are every country\u2019s best bet for getting there. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/03\/10\/a-reminder-as-oil-prices-spike-evs-are-the-1-route-to-energy-independence\/ 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\/a-reminder-as-oil-prices-spike-evs-are-the-1-route-to-energy-independence\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":348300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348299","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\/348299","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=348299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}