{"id":292012,"date":"2026-04-29T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:17:07","slug":"fresno-gas-prices-surge-toward-6-a-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292012\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Gas Prices Surge Toward $6 a Gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 Gasoline prices just hit a new high for 2026. According to AAA, the national average climbed to $4.23 a gallon on Wednesday, the highest level since the war with Iran began \u2014 and more than 40% higher than late February.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno drivers are currently shelling out $5.89 a gallon which is $1.13 more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Several California counties are even more expensive for drivers with average prices for regular unleaded surging past the $6 mark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CHECK AAA GAS PRICES HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surge is being driven by rising oil prices after the U.S. and Iran imposed a dual blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route for Persian Gulf oil. Brent crude has jumped nearly 25% in just two weeks, now trading at about one\u2011fourteen a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump has told aides to prepare for a prolonged blockade, as ship traffic through the strait has dropped sharply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 Gasoline prices just hit a new high for 2026. According to AAA, the national average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-292012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292012","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=292012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}