{"id":419,"date":"2008-11-26T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2008-11-26T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:08:37","slug":"lubbock-tx-does-not-exist-says-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/lubbock-tx-does-not-exist-says-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock, TX Does Not Exist says Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or so it would seem they think so anyway.\u00a0 Below is a quote of a recent AP story:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; Texans hitting the road for Thanksgiving are finding retail gas prices at levels to give thanks for.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Wednesday found self-serve, regular was averaging $1.75 per gallon. That&#8217;s 13 cents lower than last week.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the average price per gallon fell 16 cents to $1.86 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive gasoline this week was in El Paso, where it averaged $1.92 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cheapest gas is in Amarillo, at $1.66 per gallon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AAA Texas spokeswoman Sarah Schimmer says the auto club expects 7.8% of all U.S. travel during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to be in Texas. Schimmer says 2.5 million Texans plan to be driving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note the line I bolded there.\u00a0 Currently gas in Lubbock, which is easily checked at <a href=\"http:\/\/texasgasprices.com\/Lubbock\/index.aspx\">texasgasprices.com<\/a>, is averaging $1.50\/gal.\u00a0 So obviously Amarillo does NOT have the cheapest gas in the state.<\/p>\n<p>I could understand not checking lots of small towns, but Lubbock is <em>at least<\/em> as big as Amarillo, if not bigger, and certainly has received plenty of national attention in the sports arena lately.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I would have passed this off as a slip up or even rushing to do the report and not having complete facts, but every time they release one of these, which seems to be weekly, it&#8217;s the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>What gives AP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or so it would seem they think so anyway.\u00a0 Below is a quote of a recent AP story: HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; Texans hitting the road for Thanksgiving are finding retail gas prices at levels to give thanks for. The weekly AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Wednesday found self-serve, regular was averaging $1.75 per gallon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}