{"id":191,"date":"2008-05-30T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-05-30T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:09:13","slug":"gasoline-prices-fked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline Prices :( f*ked up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>I had to buy gasoline today and the sticker shock was amazing. Now as one of the Californians without a permanent car, I wince whenever I have a car and have to fill that bad boy up. I usually rent cars leisurely for personal use when I am home or through my gracious benefactor called my employer when traveling for work. I was in Chicago. where they have the highest prices in the country hands down and I do not know how people across the country go week after week to the pump and drop $50 for just a half tank without Swearing off driving only to the essentials-went and maybe the occassional relative who is on deck to pass a boat-load of cash down the line in the near future when they pass. So here I am in Chicago and having put $50 in the tank the day previous to decrease the amount I would ask my employer to pay, here I was at the station where they were this very minute changing the price of 87 regular from $4.25 to $4.35 as I watched&#8211;they had changed this very sign twice already today. TODAY! When will it Stop? let me tell you when-not anytime soon. Back home in LA I&#8217;m Still seeing the joy-riders up and down in their cars on Hollywood and Sunset Blvd&#8217;s and no one is squawking other than the people who have already squeezed the budget to a shoestring. I can only hope that with a new President (a non-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.org\">Republican <\/a>one that is&#8230;) we will once again pull some of that $12 Billion\/day spent on Iraq and Afghanistan to make natural gas cars more widely available and of course developing technologies like nuclear directly ON-BOARD the vehicle.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/democrat_logo.jpg\" alt=\"democrat_logo\" title=\"democrat_logo\" width=\"124\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-194\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/republican_logo.jpg\" alt=\"republican_logo\" title=\"republican_logo\" width=\"129\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to buy gasoline today and the sticker shock was amazing. Now as one of the Californians without a permanent car, I wince whenever I have a car and have to fill that bad boy up. I usually rent cars leisurely for personal use when I am home or through my gracious benefactor called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}