{"id":1091,"date":"2006-10-19T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/getting_close-2\/"},"modified":"2006-10-19T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T22:17:05","slug":"getting_close-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/getting_close-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could say that I&#8217;m fixated on the price of gas, and you&#8217;d be right.  Today, I filled the tank and paid $2.039 per gallon.  We&#8217;re SO close to less than two buck gas.  Will we make it?  Somehow, I doubt it.<br \/>\nThe oddest thing about this is that what I paid today was LESS than what they were charging in central Illinois.  I suspect the cost is artificially increased there because of all the farm trucks being used right now.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always something!<br \/>\nI blogged earlier about the obscene amount the CEO of Exelon, the parent company of ComEd, is paid ($27,000,000 a YEAR!).  I have to agree with Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, of Illinois.  He says that the company, which is seeking to raise the cost of electricity in Northern Illinois by 22 to 55%,  needs to consider tightening their belt first.<br \/>\nI realize that rates for electricity have been frozen since 1997, but an increase of 22% the day of deregulation is purely greed.  &#8220;We can, therefore, we will&#8221; take you all to the cleaners, and there&#8217;s not a darned thing you can do about it.<br \/>\nConservatively, I&#8217;d guess that we pay approximately $1,500 a year for electricity.  ComEd is proposing to increase that by $330 to $825 for the year.<br \/>\nI have the sense that we are recreating the golden age of the Robber Barons.<br \/>\nFor more information on this situation, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanchicagonews.com\/heraldnews\/business\/99087,4_3_JO17_RATES_S1.article\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could say that I&#8217;m fixated on the price of gas, and you&#8217;d be right. Today, I filled the tank and paid $2.039 per gallon. We&#8217;re SO close to less than two buck gas. Will we make it? Somehow, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/getting_close-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}