{"id":228774,"date":"2026-03-20T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:55:07","slug":"rising-gas-prices-impact-the-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228774\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising gas prices impact the local economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The conflict in the middle east is driving up oil prices around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In California, gas prices have reached $5 a gallon, with some experts forecasting even higher costs at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>Kern County sits at the center of the State&#8217;s oil industry and economists say the impact of these higher prices will have a greater effect on our community.<\/p>\n<p>The impact is expected to be seen beyond the gas pump and will affect jobs, food prices and the broader local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>California State University Bakersfield Associate Professor of Economics Dr. Richard Gearhart joined ARC Bakersfield to share his insight into the complex issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The conflict in the middle east is driving up oil prices around the globe.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-228774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}