{"id":13471,"date":"2018-02-10T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2018-02-10T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T01:03:45","slug":"demand-driving-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2018\/02\/10\/demand-driving-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand Driving Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35320\" title=\"AAA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AAA.gif\" alt=\"AAA\" width=\"200\" height=\"122\"><strong>Tampa Bay, FL<\/strong> &#8211; Consumer gasoline demand continues to climb, hitting its highest point yet in 2018. According to the Energy Information Administration\u2019s latest weekly petroleum status report, demand registered at 9.11 million b\/d.<\/p>\n<p>That is 70,000 b\/d more than the previous week and nearly 170,000 b\/d more than the same time in 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_308884\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Fueling-at-the-Pump.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308884\" class=\"wp-image-308884 size-medium\" title=\"Gasoline demand reached is highest point in 2018 last week.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Fueling-at-the-Pump-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"Gasoline demand reached is highest point in 2018 last week.\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-308884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gasoline demand reached is highest point in 2018 last week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While demand last year did not hit the 9 million b\/d mark until early March, it did hit it in early February both in 2016 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Typically demand reaches high rates in March when the spring driving season kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>Among factors, strong consumer confidence in the economy has contributed to drivers using more gasoline than usual this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay, FL &#8211; Consumer gasoline demand continues to climb, hitting its highest point yet in 2018. According to the Energy Information Administration\u2019s latest weekly petroleum status report, demand registered at 9.11 million b\/d. That is 70,000 b\/d more than the previous week and nearly 170,000 b\/d more than the same time in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1361,9800,6620,11225],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-aaa","tag-energy-information-administration","tag-gas-prices","tag-tampa-bay-fl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13472,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions\/13472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}