{"id":889524,"date":"2026-09-09T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:30:08","slug":"canadian-pump-prices-creep-higher-as-mideast-fighting-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889524\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian pump prices creep higher as Mideast fighting escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian gas prices climb<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press &#8211; Sep 9, 2026 \/ 10:38 am | Story: 630700<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"A gull flies overhead as a boy stands with his bicycle on a beach overlooking commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d8398481206e0d73a86820bbee1ceda5ef656bcb599219955d2ad6f77243e737.jpg\" style=\"height:427px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>A gull flies overhead as a boy stands with his bicycle on a beach overlooking commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/p>\n<p>Fuel prices tend to ease off around this time of year, but one industry expert says drivers should expect no such relief this time.<\/p>\n<p>The high-demand summer driving season winds down after Labour Day and refineries will soon switch to producing cheaper winter fuels.<\/p>\n<p>But international crude oil prices have surged above US$100 a barrel as fighting once again escalates in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route out of the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Price-tracking website Gasbuddy.com says the national average for a litre of regular unleaded gasoline in Canada is almost $1.80, a more than three-cent jump from a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at Gasbuddy, says pump prices could further creep up as high as $1.85 a litre in the next week or two.<\/p>\n<p>He says diesel prices are also seeing a surge at a particularly bad time for farmers who are in the middle of their fall harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian gas prices climb Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press &#8211; Sep 9, 2026 \/ 10:38 am | Story:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-889524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889524","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=889524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}