{"id":610,"date":"2013-02-08T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/08\/gas-pricing-is-a-true-mystery"},"modified":"2013-02-08T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:59:00","slug":"gas-pricing-is-a-true-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Gas pricing is a true mystery"},"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><a title=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=857775\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=857775\">http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=857775<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually proud to admit that I don\u2019t claim expertise in anything. That lack of intimate knowledge protect me, I suppose, from those who think I should understand the intricacies of every subject that crosses my mind.<\/p>\n<p>The latest perplexing subject deals with gasoline prices. They spiked dramatically in the past few days, up about 16 cents per gallon across Amarillo. Remember when they drip-dripped their way back down to around $2.92 per gallon at some locations? As my friend Jon Mark Beilue noted in a recent newspaper essay, it almost made him want to \u201cwash my car with gasoline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m always bumfuzzled by the pace of these price increases compared with the pace of their decreases. What goes up does so rapidly; but what goes down does so at a snail\u2019s pace.<\/p>\n<p>The cynic in me \u2013 and it\u2019s just a tiny fraction of my DNA \u2013 suggests it\u2019s greed. Retailers want to hold on to those few extra cents for as long as they can before giving us poor shmucks a break when we fill our vehicles with fuel.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m acquainted with some folks in the gasoline retail business in town. I\u2019ll just have to ask them straight up: Why don\u2019t the prices seemingly ever decline at the speed with which they increase?<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that I\u2019ll get some gobbledy-gook response that only will confuse me even more.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone out there can explain it to me.<\/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>http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=857775 I\u2019m actually proud to admit that I don\u2019t claim expertise in anything. That lack of intimate knowledge protect me, I suppose, from those who think I should understand the intricacies of every subject that crosses my mind. The latest perplexing subject deals with gasoline prices. They spiked dramatically in the past few days, up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gas pricing is a true mystery<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}