{"id":48177,"date":"2015-02-01T22:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_savings_at_the_pump_are_staying_in_wallets\/"},"modified":"2015-02-01T22:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:59:13","slug":"wsj_savings_at_the_pump_are_staying_in_wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48177","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Savings at the Pump Are Staying in Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are taking the money they are saving at the gas pump and socking it away, a sign of consumers\u2019 persistent caution even when presented with an unexpected windfall.<\/p>\n<p>This newfound commitment to frugality was illustrated this past week when the nation\u2019s biggest payment-card companies said they aren\u2019t seeing evidence consumers are putting their gasoline savings toward discretionary items like travel, home renovations and electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, people are more often putting the money aside for a rainy day or using it to pay down debt. That more Americans are saving their bounty at the pump comes as a surprise, because the personal savings rate, after rising during and after the recession, has declined steadily over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/savings-at-the-pump-are-staying-in-wallets-1422661976\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are taking the money they are saving at the gas pump and socking it away, a sign of consumers\u2019 persistent caution even when presented with an unexpected windfall. This newfound commitment to frugality was illustrated this past week when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48177\">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":[39,40,50,209,101,582,149,140,168,98,593,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48177","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=48177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}