{"id":1463,"date":"2008-05-21T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/gas-prices-put-nascar-fans-under-yellow-flag\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T02:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:01:36","slug":"gas-prices-put-nascar-fans-under-yellow-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/gas-prices-put-nascar-fans-under-yellow-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices Put NASCAR Fans Under Yellow Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the rising prices at the pump have already put you in a panic.  Our first $70 fill-up was quiet an eye-opener.   But, now this article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/sports\/fans_13693___article.html\/gas_paying.html\" target=\"_blank\">TheTimesNews.com<\/a> details the toll that rising prices are wreaking on one of my favorite sports-NASCAR. <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/securedownload-790909.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/securedownload-790896.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Seems that gas-guzzling is not just for Earnhardt and Gordon, but essential to the transportation and fan culture of NASCAR.    For many fans, the venues are more than 250 miles away and a trip to an event is not just one day at the game;  its a weekend of camping out and tailgating in your RV.  With prices at 4 dollars\/gallon, NASCAR fans are starting to do the math.  So, what can be done to get NASCAR fans to their favorite races?  <\/p>\n<p>We could always bring back a retro ideo of H.A. &#8220;Humpy&#8221; Wheeler, president of Lowe&#8217;s Motor Speedway in Concord.  <br \/>During the energy crisis of the 70s, he hired a former oil company executive to drive up the interstates leading to Charlotte and pay gas station owners $500 each to guarantee a fill-up to any fan holding race tickets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is a bit of American capitalism and ingenuity at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the rising prices at the pump have already put you in a panic.  Our first $70 fill-up was quiet an eye-opener.   But, now this article from TheTimesNews.com details the toll that rising prices are wreaking on one of my favorite sports-NASCAR. Seems that gas-guzzling is not just for Earnhardt and Gordon, but essential to the transportation and fan culture of NASCAR.    For many fans, the venues are more than 250 miles away and a trip to an event is not just one day &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}