{"id":577095,"date":"2026-03-31T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:29:08","slug":"gas-prices-hit-4-a-gallon-kuwaiti-tanker-struck-off-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577095\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices hit $4 a gallon; Kuwaiti tanker struck off Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UQNJWEBJZ5GIZOUQFFQLWW42L4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Gas prices at U.S. pumps spiked above $4 a gallon for the first time since the summer of 2022, as the war in Iran sends oil costs surging and family budgets feel the strain.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"J3ADYH4W2JG6JAKG4L3DCALU5M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The national average price for a gallon of gas was $4.02 on Tuesday, according to AAA. That\u2019s after weeks of steady increases that have surprised households and businesses. One month ago, gas was less than $3 a gallon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices at U.S. pumps spiked above $4 a gallon for the first time since the summer of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-577095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}