{"id":10308,"date":"2008-12-23T04:06:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/red_light_and_siren_arent_businesses_supposed_to_be_concerned_about_the_con\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T04:06:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T04:06:06","slug":"red_light_and_siren_arent_businesses_supposed_to_be_concerned_about_the_con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10308","title":{"rendered":"Red Light and Siren: Aren&#39;t Businesses Supposed to be Concerned About the Consumer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever happened to the cost of doing business? There was a time when businesses bit the bullet and absorbed the ordinary cost of doing business. Them days are gone forever. Nowadays, the consumer gets stuck with those costs. Capital improvements? Raise prices. Upgrade computers? Raise prices.<\/p>\n<p>I believe most consumers would agree that it was perfectly reasonable for businesses to charge higher prices to offset the skyrocketing cost of fuel which we experienced in recent months. But now that fuel prices have fallen back down, have businesses lowered prices accordingly? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to screwing the consumer, CenterPoint Energy takes the prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redlightsandsiren.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/consumer-be-damned.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever happened to the cost of doing business? There was a time when businesses bit the bullet and absorbed the ordinary cost of doing business. Them days are gone forever. Nowadays, the consumer gets stuck with those costs. Capital improvements?<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10308\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}