{"id":1298,"date":"2015-07-14T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:54:23","slug":"gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2015\/07\/gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Pump Screen Could Save Millions of Liters of Dripped Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5916284\/this-simple-gas-pump-nozzle-screen-could-save-millions-of-liters-of-dripped-gas\">Gas Pump Screen Could Save Millions of Liters of Dripped Gas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spilling gas on your shoes after you fill your car seems like just a small annoyance. But it happens to everyone, and apparently all that wasted fuel adds up to about half a billion liters of fuel lost every year. An epidemic this simple mesh cap promises to solve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had this exact\u00a0idea yesterday, reminiscent of the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2013\/01\/great_moments_i_6.html\">39 drops of solder<\/a> anecdote about Rockefeller. Like most of my good ideas, someone has beaten me to it by a few years. It&#8217;s criminal that these aren&#8217;t required on every gas pump in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas Pump Screen Could Save Millions of Liters of Dripped Gas: Spilling gas on your shoes after you fill your car seems like just a small annoyance. But it happens to everyone, and apparently all that wasted fuel adds up to about half a billion liters of fuel lost every year. An epidemic this simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1G65p-gas","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}