{"id":2815,"date":"2008-05-13T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2008-05-13T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T18:20:00","slug":"y2k-gasoline-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"Y2K, Gasoline Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick news item, as this is proving to be a busy week, with lots to review at work, and lots to do at home. It seems that the rise in the price of fuel has created another problem: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/ci_9237374\" target=\"_blank\">many pumps cannot handle the higher prices<\/a>. Some pumps cannot accept a price above $3.999\/g, and others can&#8217;t handle a maximum price over $99.99. Those of us who are old enough remember this happening before, when the price of gas first passed $1.00. Pumps couldn&#8217;t handle it, and pump owners coped by either treating the price as per half-gallon (i.e., set the rate to half of the price\/g rate, and then double it at the cashier), or by pricing per litre. We may be seeing that again, because station operator profits (as opposed to oil company profits) are razor-thin, and they often cannot afford to update their pumps (especially in marginal or low-traffic areas).<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting article, one that made me think of some of the early Y2K problems, where people just didn&#8217;t conceive of dates after 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick news item, as this is proving to be a busy week, with lots to review at work, and lots to do at home. It seems that the rise in the price of fuel has created another problem: many pumps cannot handle the higher prices. Some pumps cannot accept a price above $3.999\/g, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2815\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-fueling-the-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}