{"id":10544,"date":"2015-08-13T02:22:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T02:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2015-08-13T02:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T02:22:52","slug":"gasoline-projected-to-drop-then-it-spikes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10544","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline projected to drop &#8230; then it spikes up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>No sooner than I finished reading reports about projected steep declines in the price of gasoline in the United States &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then the price of unleaded regular gas spikes up 15 cents overnight in little ol&#8217; Amarillo, right here in the heart of the Oil and Natural Gas Patch.<\/p>\n<p>What gives with that?<\/p>\n<p>One of the reports I read said the price decline can be attributed to a number of factors:<\/p>\n<p>* Automakers are making more fuel-efficient cars. My wife and I are driving one now, a Toyota Prius. We&#8217;re doing our part.<\/p>\n<p>* There&#8217;s a glut of higher-quality gasoline that needs to be used up. Once that supply is gone, then refiners are going to start turning out lower-grade gasoline, which will sell for less than the better quality go-juice.<\/p>\n<p>* Alternative energy sources are becoming more of the norm across the country. The wind and the sun are heating and cooling more homes, although Texas &#8212; one of the sunnier places in the country &#8212; needs to get\u00a0more involved in\u00a0the solar energy game.<\/p>\n<p>I always have trouble trying to figure out the gasoline pricing structure in Amarillo and the Panhandle. A friend who owns a chain of convenience store\/gas stations has tried to explain it to me. It has something to do with the price he pays wholesalers for the gasoline he sells at his stations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit, though, to being\u00a0annoyed when I read about consumer price projections &#8212; only to watch the price of the commodity at issue going in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just need to settle down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner than I finished reading reports about projected steep declines in the price of gasoline in the United States &#8230; Then the price of unleaded regular gas spikes up 15 cents overnight in little ol&#8217; Amarillo, right here in the heart of the Oil and Natural Gas Patch. What gives with that? One of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gasoline projected to drop &#8230; then it spikes up!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[269,3395,4305,5272],"class_list":["post-10544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-alternative-energy","tag-oil-prices","tag-solar-energy","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10545,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions\/10545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}