Diesel prices in Minnesota jumped again Monday, now averaging more than $6 a gallon across the state amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
AAA reported Monday\u2019s average was just over $6.07 a gallon \u2014 a record high. It\u2019s up more than 10 cents a gallon from Sunday, and an increase of 30 cents over the past week. <\/p>\n
The average price of diesel in Minnesota is nearly $2.50 higher than the same time last year.<\/p>\n
The national diesel average stood at $6.23 a gallon on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, AAA reported that gas prices in Minnesota were averaging about $4.23 on Monday. That was down less than a penny from Sunday \u2014 but it was more than 25 cents higher than a week ago.<\/p>\n
A year ago, gas was averaging $3.04 a gallon in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s national average was $4.32.<\/p>\n
Military conflict and attacks on oil infrastructure in the Middle East have driven up oil prices.<\/p>\n
Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 through which a fifth of the world\u2019s traded oil and gas transits in peacetime \u2014 in the opening days of the war with the U.S. and Israel. The Saudis have since used the Bab el-Mandeb Strait \u2014 which leads out of the Red Sea — as an alternate route for crude oil exports.<\/p>\n
Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels said Monday that they seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the Iranian-backed rebels’ ability to control the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.<\/p>\n
The Houthis\u2019 newest takeover, following the seizure of the Red Sea port of Mokha and a strategic island last week, puts more pressure on Saudi shipments and, in turn, global oil supplies and prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diesel prices in Minnesota jumped again Monday, now averaging more than $6 a gallon across the state amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-615888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}