{"id":8732,"date":"2006-04-29T12:39:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/29\/the-price-of-gas.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T19:39:49","slug":"the_price_of_ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/the_price_of_ga.html","title":{"rendered":"The price of gas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interesting map here showing the price of gas by county<\/a>. Particularly interesting is how state <\/em>also affects it — due, I’ve no doubt, to state gas tax differences (or, in some cases, state requirements for different formulations).<\/p>\n

When I was in the UK a few weeks back, prices there were around the equivalent of $5\/galllon (again, largely due to national gas tax rates).<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting map here showing the price of gas by county. Particularly interesting is how state also affects it — due, I’ve no doubt, to state gas tax differences (or, in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48708,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/the-gas-tax-and-the-funding-of-highways.html","url_meta":{"origin":8732,"position":0},"title":"The gas tax and the funding of highways","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Dec-14 9:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"A tax on gasoline, whether fixed by the gallon or pegged to inflation, is just generally a bad idea, as fuel consumption is no longer a decent proxy for wear and tear on highways and bridges. 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