{"id":2274,"date":"2011-06-01T05:34:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2011-06-01T05:35:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:35:29","slug":"the-price-of-gas-or-should-i-say-petrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/the-price-of-gas-or-should-i-say-petrol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Gas (or Should I Say &#8220;Petrol&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since landing in Abu Dhabi, family and friends back home have had a million questions.  But perhaps the one most frequently asked is &#8220;how much is the gas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, after converting litres to gallons and dirhams to dollars, I calculated the current price to be:<\/p>\n<p><strong>$1.77 per gallon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Normally, this is the part where I say that it&#8217;s not as cheap as we thought it would be. Or, that locals still talk about time when gas was literally cheaper than bottled water.  But, I think that after reading $1.77\/gal, none of you want to hear that.  Sorry.  <\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2274 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/the-price-of-gas-or-should-i-say-petrol\/img00183\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG00183-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2320\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2320'>\n\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s not uncommon to have to wait in line for gas\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/the-price-of-gas-or-should-i-say-petrol\/img00184\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG00184-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2319\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2319'>\n\t\t\t\tAnd like New Jersey, you don&#8217;t pump your own gas in the UAE\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/the-price-of-gas-or-should-i-say-petrol\/img00185\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG00185-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2318\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2318'>\n\t\t\t\tIt didn&#8217;t take much math to realize gas (or &#8220;petrol&#8221; as locals call it) is cheaper here\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since landing in Abu Dhabi, family and friends back home have had a million questions. But perhaps the one most frequently asked is &#8220;how much is the gas?&#8221; Well, after converting litres to gallons and dirhams to dollars, I calculated the current price to be: $1.77 per gallon Normally, this is the part where&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/the-price-of-gas-or-should-i-say-petrol\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","tag-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}