{"id":6278,"date":"2008-05-22T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/consumers_cut_driving_but_not_diets_poll\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:29:00","slug":"consumers_cut_driving_but_not_diets_poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6278","title":{"rendered":"Consumers cut driving but not diets: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As prices at gasoline pumps and grocery stores rise U.S. consumers say they are driving less but they can&#8217;t cut down on eating, a new poll found.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of respondents to a Reuters\/Zogby poll of likely voters in the presidential election later this year said they are driving less to compensate for record U.S. gasoline prices, which hit a record average of $3.80 per gallon on Tuesday according to travel club AAA.<\/p>\n<p>But only about 8 percent of the 1076 respondents in the national poll said they were eating less generally to cope with rising food prices, the poll said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have more control over gasoline. they are driving less and driving smarter,&#8221; pollster John Zogby said by telephone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSN1956058820080521?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews&#038;rpc=22&#038;sp=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As prices at gasoline pumps and grocery stores rise U.S. consumers say they are driving less but they can&#8217;t cut down on eating, a new poll found. Nearly half of respondents to a Reuters\/Zogby poll of likely voters in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6278\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","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=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}