{"id":1682,"date":"2008-06-05T21:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2009-03-01T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:57:08","slug":"1676-of-are-you-bitching-about-higher-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"[1676] Of are you bitching about higher fuel prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a suggestion: quit smoking.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that if you stop smoking, your may be able to maintain your expenditure to pre-June 5 level.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, while I have <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1681\" target=\"_self\">some reservation<\/a> at how the prices were raised, I cannot wait for August 2008 when local fuel retail prices are expected to achieve parity with world prices. Please raise your glass to a good economic policy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s \u2014 this entry is meant for Malaysian audience. As pointed out in the comment section, this idea does not apply in other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a suggestion: quit smoking. I suspect that if you stop smoking, your may be able to maintain your expenditure to pre-June 5 level. As for me, while I have some reservation at how the prices were raised, I cannot wait for August 2008 when local fuel retail prices are expected to achieve parity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[192,232],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-crude-oil","tag-fuel-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}