{"id":133206,"date":"2026-03-09T03:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133206\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:57:11","slug":"pennsylvania-gas-prices-surge-amid-war-in-the-middle-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133206\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania gas prices surge amid war in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gas prices are continuing to climb due to the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here in Pennsylvania, according to AAA, the price of gas has risen 40 cents, averaging $3.57 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last week, that number was $3.11 after the first full day of the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The national average price for a gallon of gas today is $3.45, up an average of 47 cents nationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last Wednesday, Governor Shapiro took questions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/northumberland-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Northumberland County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Northumberland County<\/a>, and when asked what his message was for Pennsylvanians worried about the rise in gas prices, he said this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That, combined with tariffs that the president put in place have caused costs to rise over the last year, it&#8217;s really concerning. I talked before about how we&#8217;ve cut taxes seven times in Pennsylvania. We&#8217;re putting money back in people&#8217;s pockets. When prices spike as a result of federal action, that makes it harder in communities here in Central Pennsylvania and all across our Commonwealth,&#8221; said Governor Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governor also says that the rise in prices here in Pennsylvania is due to the lack of clarity in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices are continuing to climb due to the war in the Middle East. Here in Pennsylvania, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5298,8098,3412,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-133206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-central-pennsylvania","tag-gas-prices","tag-governor-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}