{"id":36,"date":"2005-04-10T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2005-04-23T19:25:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T01:25:01","slug":"gas-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/10\/gas-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can Anyone please tell me why gas is going up?. I Mean a real,  logical answer.<br \/>\nI know what all the newsies say and what our Goverment is feeding us, but I was always taught that when you sell more of a product you can offer it at a cheaper price.<br \/>\nMost all other consumer goods are marketed under this economic theory, But the main reason that they are giving now is with the summer traveling season coming soon the demand is so that they will have to raise the price of oil. Why cant the corporate Fat Cats, make the same amount of profit off of more sales rather than trying (and Succeeding) to make more profit at once?.<br \/>\nLets face it, OPEC is taking over this country one gas station at a time, Mean while I am sitting on the leases of 5 capped off wells in NW Texas that the Oil company says they can&#8217;t afford to pump out of. I guess that might eat into his bonus this week,  after all one cant live on 50K a month!<br \/>\nAnd as for the need to refine newer and cleaner grades of fuels, and raising the prices for that, well I&#8217;m for the cleaning up of the planet and the atmosphere, but why every time that the EPA mandates something new does my profit drop? Two words, Corporate Greed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Anyone please tell me why gas is going up?. I Mean a real, logical answer. I know what all the newsies say and what our Goverment is feeding us, but I was always taught that when you sell more of a product you can offer it at a cheaper price. Most all other consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}