{"id":9818,"date":"2020-06-29T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2020-06-28T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T20:05:57","slug":"low-gas-price-was-short-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/low-gas-price-was-short-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Gas Price Was Short-Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s an interesting shot from some years ago in California. Notice the gas prices.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

It sure was sweet, wasn’t it, when gas prices dropped so low. Those days are over.<\/p>\n

Back when everything was shut down AND Russia and Saudi Arabia were having a price war I watched as gas prices at the pump dropped lower and lower. Holy cow, what a great opportunity to save some money. Only problem was, like everyone else, I wasn’t going much of any place to use the gas I had. And I didn’t need gas. Between my car and three bikes, none of them were anywhere near low. But I really wanted to buy gas.<\/p>\n

I finally reached a point where it made sense to fill my Honda. On May 8 I put 3.57 gallons in the Honda, at $1.189 per gallon. Total for the fill: $4.24. Terrific.<\/p>\n

Then four days later I filled the Concours. It took 5.38 gallons and I paid $1.339 per gallon: total $7.21. I could get to like this.<\/p>\n

I rode the Honda a good bit and filled it again on May 13. This time I paid $1.6999 per gallon. It took 3.35 gallons for a total of $5.69. Still not bad.<\/p>\n

By June 14, when I filled the Kawi again I paid $2.269 a gallon. This time it cost $7.96 to put in 3.51 gallons. I don’t like the direction this is heading. And then on June 24 I put 3.09 gallons in the Suzuki and it cost $7.72, at $2.499 per gallon.<\/p>\n

Welcome back to the real world. We knew it wouldn’t last but it was nice while it did. And I’m glad I got to buy at least a few gallons really cheap. I mean, $1.189 per gallon? In 2020? No one would have believed that a year ago.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the last time I put gas in my car was February 23. That’s the one I wish had been close to empty on May 8.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

It takes both pistons and cylinders to make a bike run. One is not more important than the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It sure was sweet, wasn’t it, when gas prices dropped so low. Those days are over. Back when everything was shut down AND Russia and Saudi Arabia were having a price war I watched as gas prices at the pump dropped lower and lower. Holy cow, what a great opportunity to save some money. Only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,349,517],"tags":[663],"class_list":["post-9818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honda-motorcycles","category-kawasaki","category-suzuki-motorcycles","tag-gas-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9821,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions\/9821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}