{"id":271669,"date":"2026-04-17T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:20:27","slug":"are-you-driving-less-because-of-high-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271669\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you driving less because of high gas prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you driving less because of high gas prices? Vote in the poll above or <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vote-are-you-driving-less-because-of-high-gas-prices-middle-east-war-united-states-military-strait-of-hormuz-iran-israel-crude-oil-gas-pump-global-oil-shortage-trump-administration-price-hikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of oil appears to be settling in at a level in the mid $90s, lower than they were when the war started and at the beginning of the U.S. blockade. But that hasn\u2019t translated to lower prices at the pump. Meanwhile, fears of a global oil shortage are rising, and with the summer travel season near, some airlines are warning of major price hikes and flight cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you driving less because of high gas prices? Vote in the poll above or click here. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-271669","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\/271669","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=271669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}