{"id":2221,"date":"2012-02-24T07:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2012-02-24T07:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:42:51","slug":"my-gas-price-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"My Gas Price Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: nothing yet]<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices have really taken off in the last couple of weeks.\u00a0 We seem to be in a mode of zooming up then settling back a bit, then zooming up again.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are getting pretty close to $4\/gal.\u00a0 I expect some of the more expensive parts of the country are already at that point.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction:\u00a0 If gas is over $4\/gal in October, President Obama will be defeated in a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>[Note: I started this blog one year ago with a post about Haley Barbour running for president.\u00a0 So that tells you how good my political predictions are.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=2222\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2222\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2222\" title=\"gas prices\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG00534-20120224-0705-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG00534-20120224-0705-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG00534-20120224-0705.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: nothing yet] Gas prices have really taken off in the last couple of weeks.\u00a0 We seem to be in a mode of zooming up then settling back a bit, then zooming up again. Now we are getting pretty close to $4\/gal.\u00a0 I expect some of the more expensive parts of the country are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}