{"id":963,"date":"2007-10-15T06:20:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/963"},"modified":"2007-10-15T06:20:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:20:06","slug":"burning-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/963","title":{"rendered":"Burning Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I was in for it when I bought a car that runs on premium instead of regular.&nbsp; I accepted that as part of the joy of owning a Mercedes (<em>The Mercedes Experience<\/em>&#8230;as my friend Dan puts it&#8230;).&nbsp; But still I had visions of all the gas station signs I saw while on the road last July, particularly in Nevada for some reason, advertising premium gasoline for over four dollars a gallon.&nbsp; We were having a gasoline price peak back then, right as I was taking my annual road trip vacation.&nbsp; I was driving the Accord, and counting my blessings that I had a car that was doing about 33 miles per gallon.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still in the break-in period on the Mercedes, but it looks like I&#8217;ll be getting at best around 25 mpg in it.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t expect was how widely the price of premium varies.&nbsp; At least around here.&nbsp; The price of regular only varies by a few cents locally.&nbsp; Last night as I was looking to fill up, I noticed the price of premium here in the Baltimore area running between $3.10 and $2.80.&nbsp; I saw stations right down the street from each other, having the same exact price for regular, differing by as much as 20 cents a gallon on the price of premium.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve no idea why that might be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I was in for it when I bought a car that runs on premium instead of regular.&nbsp; I accepted that as part of the joy of owning a Mercedes (The Mercedes Experience&#8230;as my friend Dan puts it&#8230;).&nbsp; But still I had visions of all the gas station signs I saw while on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}