{"id":457165,"date":"2026-09-08T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457165\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:36:08","slug":"san-diego-county-gas-prices-set-labor-day-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457165\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego County Gas Prices Set Labor Day Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose to $5.95, its highest amount ever on Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Labor Day record was $5.38 set in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has risen 19 of the past 20 days, increasing 26.9 cents, including six-tenths of a cent Sunday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is the highest it&#8217;s been since June 5, and is $1.24 more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>It has increased $1.265 since the start of the joint U.S., Israel war on Iran in February, which sent oil prices higher and drastically accelerated increases at the gas pump.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz has plunged, and Iran has refused to reopen the waterway, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/national-international\/fuel-prices-record-labor-day-high-usa\/4070239\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose to $5.95, its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[147,69913,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-457165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-gas-prices","tag-labor-day","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457165","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=457165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}