{"id":14297,"date":"2026-04-05T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:39:21","slug":"the-cost-of-fuel-the-cost-of-republican-control-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14297","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of Fuel, The Cost Of Republican Control Of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>76 bucks to fill my tank from a tad under half just now. And that&#8217;s diesel. Diesel used to be dirt cheap. Ah but then so was gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having to spend nearly four grand on maintenance for the Mercedes this quarter, first for a brake job, and then the passenger rear wheel bearing is going bad. After having a lot of expensive work done my usual thing is to go take a road trip, but with fuel prices what they are that isn&#8217;t happening.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing I can walk to nearly everything I need on a day to day basis here in Charm City. But I&#8217;m going to feel suffocated not being able to drive for hours on end just enjoying the open road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>76 bucks to fill my tank from a tad under half just now. And that&#8217;s diesel. Diesel used to be dirt cheap. Ah but then so was gasoline. I&#8217;m having to spend nearly four grand on maintenance for the Mercedes this quarter, first for a brake job, and then the passenger rear wheel bearing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[212,84,118],"class_list":["post-14297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-donald-trumps-america","tag-mercedes-love","tag-republican-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}