{"id":518462,"date":"2026-03-06T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518462\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:16:08","slug":"geopolitical-tensions-cause-gas-prices-to-dramatically-rise-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518462\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitical tensions cause gas prices to dramatically rise in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers filling up this morning certainly felt the pinch as prices at the pump have risen by 10 to 20 cents per litre in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>In Montreal, some businesses were posting $1.65 per litre of gasoline and $2.13 for diesel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Iran and gas supply chain disruptions are causing gas prices at home and around the world to shoot up.<\/p>\n<p>Across the province, gas prices are soaring \u2013 and are likely to continue to rise as long as the conflict continues.<\/p>\n<p>The domino effect could continue, as additional costs for retailers are then passed on to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>With diesel climbing above $2.00 in several places, there are also concerns that this will also affect the costs of whatever is being transported on trucks running on diesel, hitting consumers even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers filling up this morning certainly felt the pinch as prices at the pump have risen by 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-518462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}