{"id":2349,"date":"2012-10-01T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2012-10-01T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T05:55:09","slug":"a-history-of-gas-prices-around-oct-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-history-of-gas-prices-around-oct-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of gas prices around Oct. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I travel a lot, I have steadfastly kept a table of gas prices since college. Mostly, this was to calculate my mileage. However, as time went on, the chart became less of a personal measurement and more a log of just how insane the price increases were.\u00a0I am also able to &#8220;control&#8221; the variables by filling up at the same gas station most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the list price was for super unleaded (10% ethanol blend, 89 octane) at that gas station the past eight years on the date(s) nearest October 1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 1, 2004: $1.829<\/li>\n<li>October 7, 2005: $2.769<\/li>\n<li>October 1, 2006: $1.939<\/li>\n<li>October 2, 2007: $2.499<\/li>\n<li>October 3, 2008: $3.099, down from $3.459 three weeks earlier. But by November 1, as the economy came crashing down, it was $1.899. It&#8217;s astounding to see both the rising and falling &#8220;in real time&#8221; from this year&#8217;s chart.<\/li>\n<li>September 26, 2009: $2.199 \/ October 14, 2009: $2.329<\/li>\n<li>October 1, 2010: $2.529<\/li>\n<li>October 1, 2011: $3.149<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s $3.699, which by my data set is the highest price ever seen in October \u2014 twice as much as 2004 and 55 cents higher than last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I travel a lot, I have steadfastly kept a table of gas prices since college. Mostly, this was to calculate my mileage. However, as time went on, the chart became less of a personal measurement and more a log &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-history-of-gas-prices-around-oct-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}