{"id":470336,"date":"2026-03-11T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470336\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:40:10","slug":"more-support-as-heating-oil-costs-double-amid-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470336\/","title":{"rendered":"More support as heating oil costs ‘double’ amid Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elsewhere in the county, farmer Ceri Cryer is struggling to get diesel for her tractors, with one supplier telling her stocks are running low.<\/p>\n

“We need the tractor to be scraping up the muck, to feed the animals, for hedge-cutting and we’ve also started putting the fertilizer out,” she said. <\/p>\n

“Having the tractor going is crucial to our business.”<\/p>\n

Cryer, who farms at Brinkworth Dairy, was recently quoted \u00a31.49 per litre, when her usual price had been 0.79p.<\/p>\n

She added farmers feel “out of control” when it comes to the costs of essentials such as heating oil.<\/p>\n

Prices for oil have jumped since the conflict started, but stabilised recently following reports that oil could be released from countries’ stockpiles.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elsewhere in the county, farmer Ceri Cryer is struggling to get diesel for her tractors, with one supplier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-470336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470336","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=470336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}