{"id":343820,"date":"2026-03-23T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:02:27","slug":"as-it-happened-oil-prices-rise-as-fall-out-from-middle-east-crisis-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343820\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Oil prices rise as fall out from Middle East crisis continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government will reveal in the next few weeks how it will support New Zealanders struggling with skyrocketing fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>He says the country has healthy fuel stocks, and the government&#8217;s doing everything it can to secure them.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices have risen as the fall out continues from the Middle East crisis; Brent Crude oil rose about US$1 to be just above US$113 a barrel in early Asia trade.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after US President Donald Trump vowed to &#8216;obliterate&#8217; Iran energy facilities if it doesn&#8217;t open Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Auckland Transport is calling for the government to encourage more people to use public transport.<\/p>\n<p>Follow what happened today in our liveblog below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government will reveal in the next few weeks how it will support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[48,138,47,219,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-343820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-audio","tag-business","tag-current-affairs","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}