{"id":198619211,"date":"2011-04-18T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198619211"},"modified":"2011-04-18T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:00:11","slug":"more-expensive-than-milk-4-plus-gallons-of-gas-straining-new-yorkers-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198619211","title":{"rendered":"More expensive than milk! $4-plus gallons of gas straining New Yorkers&#8217; budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY Edgar Sandoval, Jennifer H. Cunningham and Helen Kennedy<br \/>\nDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt the Mobil station on W. 30th St. in Manhattan, Kevin Williams of Brooklyn cringed next to his 2005 Mercedes-Benz as he watched the pump tick past $80.<br \/>\n&quot;I like my car, but I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s not worth it. I&#8217;m going to sell it,&quot; said Williams, 30. &quot;I either have a car or I go out. You can&#8217;t do both.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nGreyhound driver Keith Spriggs of Baltimore spent $499.73 to fill his bus.<br \/>\n&quot;I got two cars at home, and I went out and bought a moped,&quot; he said, adding that $10 worth of gas lasts him several days now.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/04\/18\/2011-04-18_they_just_keep_pouring_it_on_4plus_gallons_of_gas_straining_new_yorkers_budgets.html\">https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/04\/18\/2011-04-18_they_just_keep_pouring_it_on_4plus_gallons_of_gas_straining_new_yorkers_budgets.html<\/a>oldId.2011041820001133<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Edgar Sandoval, Jennifer H. Cunningham and Helen Kennedy DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS &#8230; At the Mobil station on W. 30th St. in Manhattan, Kevin Williams of Brooklyn cringed next to his 2005 Mercedes-Benz as he watched the pump tick past $80. &quot;I like my car, but I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s not worth it. I&#8217;m going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198619211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More expensive than milk! $4-plus gallons of gas straining New Yorkers&#8217; budgets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198619211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198619211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198619211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198619211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198619211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198619211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198619211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}