{"id":468337,"date":"2026-03-10T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:04:09","slug":"martin-lewis-ticking-timebomb-on-energy-bills-which-could-spike-30-as-trump-war-risks-higher-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468337\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis: \u2018Ticking timebomb\u2019 on energy bills which could spike 30% as Trump war risks higher inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternatively, if there were still high gas and oil costs from the war, he stressed: \u201cIf in May, we are still in this position and it looks like the October, so the winter price cap, is going to stay high and there are no cheap fixes because wholesale rates haven\u2019t come down, that is where we start to get talking about intervention points when it comes to energy bills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alternatively, if there were still high gas and oil costs from the war, he stressed: \u201cIf in May,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,141,1294,5363,585,9084,2897,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-468337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-energy-bills","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-martin-lewis","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}