{"id":126587,"date":"2021-08-21T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/hydrogen-lobbyist-quits-slams-oil-companies-false-claims-about-blue-hydrogen"},"modified":"2021-08-21T22:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:22:39","slug":"hydrogen-lobbyist-quits-slams-oil-companies-false-claims-about-blue-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/hydrogen-lobbyist-quits-slams-oil-companies-false-claims-about-blue-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies\u2019 \u201cfalse claims\u201d about blue hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogen-lobbyist-quits-slams-oil-companies-false-claims-about-blue-hydrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jackson continues by saying that blue hydrogen is \u201cat best an expensive distraction, and at worst a lock-in for continued fossil fuel use\u201d which would derail goals that the country and the world have set for decarbonizing the economy. He takes particular issue with the fact that oil and gas companies have asked the UK government for decades of subsidies while also claiming that blue hydrogen will be inexpensive to produce. \u201cIf the false claims made by oil companies about the cost of blue hydrogen were true, their projects would make a profit by 2030,\u201d he told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Recent studies have questioned blue hydrogen\u2019s low-carbon bona fides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson continues by saying that blue hydrogen is \u201cat best an expensive distraction, and at worst a lock-in for continued fossil fuel use\u201d which would derail goals that the country and the world have set for decarbonizing the economy. He takes particular issue with the fact that oil and gas companies have asked the UK [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}