{"id":150,"date":"2008-02-28T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/28\/gasoline\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T18:31:20","slug":"gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam&#8217;s Club<\/a> location down the street from me (of which we are members, due mainly to its proximity) recently opened a gas station. This is great for us &#8212; it&#8217;s essentially the same distance to the Sam&#8217;s Club gas station as it is to the other stations that, until now, we favored. And, naturally, the prices are quite a bit cheaper &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s an opening promotion or not, but the price differential is about <strong>30 cents<\/strong> or so per gallon. Huge.<\/p>\n<p>The one nagging concern is that the Sam&#8217;s Club gas station only sells regular (87 octane) and premium (91 octane) at this location. My car&#8217;s owner&#8217;s manual recommends 89 octane mid-grade gasoline, which, to this point, I have dutifully used. Note that the premium gasoline is <em>still<\/em> a lot cheaper than mid-grade at the surrounding stations, so I have no <em>economic<\/em> problem with using it. I am, however, somewhat concerned about <a href=\"http:\/\/chemistry.about.com\/library\/weekly\/aabyb100401.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports of using higher-octane fuel causing issues with the emissions systems<\/a>. Anybody know if this is worth fretting about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sam&#8217;s Club location down the street from me (of which we are members, due mainly to its proximity) recently opened a gas station. This is great for us &#8212; it&#8217;s essentially the same distance to the Sam&#8217;s Club gas station as it is to the other stations that, until now, we favored. And, naturally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}