{"id":62609,"date":"2015-11-03T10:46:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62609"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:55:17","slug":"afghanistans-43-million-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62609","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s $43 million gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62610\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62610\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donkey-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Donkey\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donkey-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Donkey.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thomas sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-34703279\">a link to the story<\/a> about the US-funded natural gas station in Sheberghan, Afghanistan which was built as an experiment to see if Afghans will switch fuels from donkey to natural gas propulsion for their vehicles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The station was constructed at the behest of a US military task force originally created to help spur economic development in Iraq after the US invasion that was later replicated in Afghanistan in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of $43m is far larger than the estimated cost of building natural gas stations in other countries &#8211; which ranges from $200,000 to $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, a similar project in Pakistan was estimated to cost only $306,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas sends us a link to the story about the US-funded natural gas station in Sheberghan, &hellip; <a title=\"Afghanistan&#8217;s $43 million gas station\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62609\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afghanistan&#8217;s $43 million gas station<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}