{"id":2398,"date":"2020-03-24T18:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:19:20","slug":"experts-warn-cheaper-than-milk-gas-is-no-substitute-for-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2020\/03\/24\/experts-warn-cheaper-than-milk-gas-is-no-substitute-for-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn: cheaper-than-milk gas is no substitute for milk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/business\/aroundregion\/story\/2020\/mar\/23\/chattanooga-gas-prices-plunge-lowest-march-levels-modern-history-due-covid-19-travel-cutbacks\/518868\/\">price of gasoline dropping<\/a> well below $2 a gallon in Chattanooga, making it less expensive than milk, experts are reminding residents that gas is not an acceptable substitute for milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, residents are seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chattanoogan.com\/2020\/3\/24\/406383\/Food-City-Working-On-Keeping-Shelves.aspx\">local grocery stores sell out of staples<\/a> and necessities like milk, bread, and toilet paper, sometimes forcing them to substitute items or be resourceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re out of milk, it might be tempting to fill your breakfast cereal bowl with some unleaded gas instead, since it&#8217;s now cheaper than milk,&#8221; said local petroleum and dairy expert Kim Attnius. &#8220;My expert advice to you is to strongly recommend against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Also, sandpaper is not a good substitute for toilet paper,&#8221; said Attnius. &#8220;I&#8217;m not an expert on toilet paper, so I had to learn this the hard way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the price of gasoline dropping well below $2 a gallon in Chattanooga, making it less expensive than milk, experts are reminding residents that gas is not an acceptable substitute for milk. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, residents are seeing local grocery stores sell out of staples and necessities like milk, bread, and toilet paper, sometimes forcing them to substitute items or be resourceful. &#8220;If you&#8217;re out of milk, it might be tempting to fill your breakfast cereal bowl with some unleaded gas instead, since it&#8217;s now cheaper than milk,&#8221; said local petroleum and dairy expert Kim Attnius. &#8220;My expert advice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}