{"id":357952,"date":"2026-04-01T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357952\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:14:10","slug":"americans-struggle-as-gas-prices-surge-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357952\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans struggle as gas prices surge amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">One month into the Iran war, US petrol prices are beginning to hurt consumers at the pump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Iran has effectively closed off the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world&#8217;s busiest oil shipping channels, since the US and Israel attacked it on 28 February. And it means the average price of petrol at the pump has topped $4 in the US for the first time in nearly four years as the Iran war continues to push up fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Oil prices are on track for the biggest one-month rise on record, with the global Brent crude benchmark trading near $120 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn8d47vzz13o\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more about the rise in petrol prices here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One month into the Iran war, US petrol prices are beginning to hurt consumers at the pump. Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-357952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357952","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=357952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}