{"id":2258,"date":"2021-01-10T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:03:59","slug":"australians-can-now-buy-carbon-neutral-car-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Australians can now buy carbon-neutral car insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian drivers who want to clear their environmental conscience can buy &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/car-insurance\/\">car insurance<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2007\/06\/05\/british-supermodel-launches-eco-friendly-car-insurance\/\">ibuyeco<\/a>. When you get your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/car-insurance\/\">insurance<\/a> through the company an extra surcharge will be applied to your premium to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/carbon+offset\/\">carbon offsets<\/a> equivalent to the output of the insured car for the term of the policy. <br \/>\n The money will go to eco-friendly projects identified by Greening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a>. The insurance is offered by Australian Insurance Holdings and a similar program has been in place since June in England by BGL Group. BGL says the ibuyeco program has offset 20,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions since the program launched.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: ibuyeco.com.au, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/Editorial\/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=44205&#038;vf=26\">Drive.com.au<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/10\/08\/australians-can-now-buy-carbon-neutral-car-insurance\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-10-08T08:01:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian drivers who want to clear their environmental conscience can buy &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; car insurance from ibuyeco. When you get your insurance through the company an extra surcharge will be applied to your premium to buy carbon offsets\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13011,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/13011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}