{"id":53658,"date":"2022-12-03T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53658"},"modified":"2022-12-03T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:59:10","slug":"fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53658","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New normal&#8217; for fuel prices: still weird"},"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>We all were kids once and many of us of a certain age remember when it was \u201cnormal\u201d to pay, oh, 25 cents for a gallon of motor fuel.<\/p>\n<p>No more, gang. We now are in the midst of the \u201cnew normal\u201d that allows us to rejoice \u2014 if only just a bit \u2014 when the price of go-juice dips below $3 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>I just filled up my pickup in Princeton, Texas, where gasoline is now being peddled for $2.52 per gallon at the service station near my home. The truck was practically empty \u2014 not \u201crunning on fumes\u201d empty, but still pretty low. The pump stopped at less than $40. The truck was full.<\/p>\n<p>I am acutely aware that the new normal means something different for our fellow Americans in California, or Hawaii, or New York. I hear about it all the time; I have family members out west who pay a whole lot more per gallon for gas than we do in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it makes me chuckle when I applaud the notion of paying $2.52 per gallon for gasoline \u2026 when I recall how it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, it\u2019s a whole lot more tolerable to shell out dough for gasoline when it\u2019s two whole dollars per gallon\u00a0<em>less expensive<\/em>\u00a0now than it was just a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>We all were kids once and many of us of a certain age remember when it was \u201cnormal\u201d to pay, oh, 25 cents for a gallon of motor fuel. No more, gang. We now are in the midst of the \u201cnew normal\u201d that allows us to rejoice \u2014 if only just a bit \u2014 when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;New normal&#8217; for fuel prices: still weird<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[9],"tags":[1591,1857],"class_list":["post-53658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-energy-policy","tag-gas-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53658","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=53658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53659,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53658\/revisions\/53659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}