{"id":368156,"date":"2026-03-27T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:19:12","slug":"leave-the-car-at-home-and-grow-your-own-spuds-how-to-get-ahead-of-the-energy-surge-and-spend-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368156\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave the car at home and grow your own spuds: how to get ahead of the energy surge and spend less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Households could be facing into a 20 to 25pc increase in energy bills, with food prices likely to rise too\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Growing your own produce won\u2019t eliminate your grocery bill and can require some initial setup, but can make a difference. Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2ee2e85e-f22f-45fd-b6c7-864d46a3bae3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Growing your own produce won\u2019t eliminate your grocery bill and can require some initial setup, but can make a difference. Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Despite a slump in oil prices after US president Trump promised to hold off on strikes against Iran, the cost per barrel has bounched back up again following Tehran\u2019s report that no deal had been reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As a result, plenty of people globally \u2013 and certainly in Ireland \u2013 will be reassessing their finances when faced with the price of petrol in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Households could be facing into a 20 to 25pc increase in energy bills, with food prices likely to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,41816],"class_list":["post-368156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-saoirse-hanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}