{"id":62573,"date":"2012-04-02T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=62573"},"modified":"2012-04-02T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:46:07","slug":"400-gas-is-excess-speculation-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=62573","title":{"rendered":"$4.00 gas &#8211; Is excess speculation to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many have cited increased world demand for oil as the reason gas is now hovering around $4 a gallon across most of the country, but a former Senator says that speculation in commodity markets is actually the cause of higher prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former Senator Byron Dorgan, who helped shape the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy policy during his time on Capitol Hill, says that the recent spike to $4 gas is not a matter of supply and demand, but rather due to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanenews.com\/is-speculation-in-commodity-markets-to-blame-for-4-gas.html#\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many have cited increased world demand for oil as the reason gas is now hovering around $4 a gallon across most of the country, but a former Senator says that speculation in commodity markets is actually the cause of higher prices. Former Senator Byron Dorgan, who helped shape the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy policy during his time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,9,8,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-boating","category-motorcycle","category-powerboat","category-pwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62574,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions\/62574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}