{"id":290,"date":"2006-09-20T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/09\/20\/lower-gas-prices\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:14:37","slug":"lower-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Lower Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Disclaimer: I actually dreamt this blog entry. The concept <strong>and<\/strong> the act of writing it. It was weird.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/charlotte\/business\/15545939.htm\">Gas is coming back down<\/a>! Neat. The cheapest gas I ever find is at Safeway. I paid $2.81 last week and it&#8217;s $2.60 this week. Wow, that&#8217;s such a remarkable difference. So? We look at gas prices move up and down and we feel like we&#8217;re beating &#8220;the man&#8221; if we go find the cheapest gas station n the metro area. But think about it. For simplicity sake, 20 cents saved on a 10-gallon tank means I paid two dollars less to fill up my car. Hooray! Wait, two bucks? And this is an extreme example; I doubt you&#8217;ll find better savings more than occasionally. So why do we still comparison-shop for gas? Spending the time and energy driving to the cheaper station now seems irrational. Economically speaking, if my time is worth $15\/hour and I spend more than an extra three minutes going to a cheaper station I just cost myself more than I saved. Hmm, thank goodness Safeway is just across the street&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: I actually dreamt this blog entry. The concept and the act of writing it. It was weird. Gas is coming back down! Neat. The cheapest gas I ever find is at Safeway. I paid $2.81 last week and it&#8217;s $2.60 this week. Wow, that&#8217;s such a remarkable difference. So? We look at gas prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}