{"id":24,"date":"2006-11-24T00:15:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jchap.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-11-24T00:26:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T05:26:28","slug":"gasoline-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/gasoline-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of updating the <a title=\"Oil and Gas Links Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jchap.com\/oil_links.htm\">Oil and Gas Links<\/a> page of my site. This has become far more time consuming than I anticipated (or wanted). The plan was wean dead links, update changed links, and organize them, if possible. However, I&#8217;ve found myself following links, reading stuff with more links and following them, and generally not making much progress with the plan. Now I&#8217;m even posting to the blog instead of getting the page done.<\/p>\n<p>What prompted this interlude was a brochure I found at the Energy Information Administration entitled <a title=\"EIA Brochure on Gasoline Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/bookshelf\/brochures\/gasolinepricesprimer\/eia1_2005primerM.html\">A Primer on Gasoline Prices<\/a>. For the past few months, there was hardly a week I didn&#8217;t hear a debate on some talk show or another, about who was responsible for the conspiracy behind gasoline prices. People love a conspiracy. It&#8217;s more satisfying (or, more likely, just requires less thought) to demonize a person\/group than try to understand economics and markets. So, this seemed a timely item for the blog, although now that prices are back down people aren&#8217;t too worked up any more. To tell you the truth, I haven&#8217;t actually read it yet! After all, I have my links project to finish, and I&#8217;m running out of daylight (metaphorically &#8211; I just mean I&#8217;ll need to hurry unless I want to still be working on it tomorrow, and I don&#8217;t). So, while I&#8217;m working on my links page, y&#8217;all can check out the official government line on gasoline prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of updating the Oil and Gas Links page of my site. This has become far more time consuming than I anticipated (or wanted). The plan was wean dead links, update changed links, and organize them, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/gasoline-prices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jchappell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}