{"id":371,"date":"2005-10-26T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T20:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/26\/humvee-as-a-status-symbol\/"},"modified":"2005-10-26T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T20:21:33","slug":"humvee-as-a-status-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/humvee-as-a-status-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Humvee as a status symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holly was telling me that Humvees get 3 MPG. That sounded like propoganda so I checked it out&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Oh my. She&#8217;s not so far off! Gasoline powered Hummers get 4-7 MPG! Turbo diesels get 10-15.<\/p>\n<p>That means my 45 mile commute to Cupertino a few days a week would cost $50 round-trip in gas instead of my current $10 round-trip! Something like an extra $6,000 a year in gas. (12,000 miles @ $3\/gallon, Hummer 5MPG, Sebring 27MPG) <\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s<\/strong> why it&#8217;s a status symbol.<\/p>\n<p>I want a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093870\/\">9000 SUX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly was telling me that Humvees get 3 MPG. That sounded like propoganda so I checked it out&#8230; Oh my. She&#8217;s not so far off! Gasoline powered Hummers get 4-7 MPG! Turbo diesels get 10-15. That means my 45 mile commute to Cupertino a few days a week would cost $50 round-trip in gas instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}