{"id":793,"date":"2005-09-20T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T04:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/09\/20\/the-free-market-and-gas-prices\/"},"modified":"2005-09-21T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T05:00:23","slug":"the-free-market-and-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/09\/20\/the-free-market-and-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Free Market and Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Americans are happy with the free market when it allows them to buy cheap T-shirts and twenty-nine-dollar DVD players, but they tend to like it less when they have to pay fifty dollars to fill up their gas tanks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/?050926ta_talk_surowiecki\">Pump Pressure &#8211; The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be willing to bet money that there is a correlation between &#8220;free-market&#8221; people and the mpg of their vehicles. The more they believe in the free-market, the more they gripe about high gas prices, and the bigger their cars and trucks are.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for some sweeping generalizations?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, gas is too cheap in this country. We should all be paying <i>at least<\/i> $1.50\/gallon more than we pay right now.<\/p>\n<p>Increase the gas tax, make us pay more, build more public transit, watch our dependence on oil decrease. It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Americans are happy with the free market when it allows them to buy cheap T-shirts and twenty-nine-dollar DVD players, but they tend to like it less when they have to pay fifty dollars to fill up their gas tanks.&#8221; Pump Pressure &#8211; The New Yorker I&#8217;d be willing to bet money that there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-cN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}