{"id":249801,"date":"2026-07-22T22:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249801\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:54:36","slug":"pump-prices-continue-to-rise-for-berks-county-residents-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249801\/","title":{"rendered":"Pump prices continue to rise for Berks County residents | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Pump prices have increased by nearly thirty cents in Berks County in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Triple A says the average for a gallon of regular unleaded in the Reading area is currently at $4.28 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The average yesterday was at $4.22, and $4.00 a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Triple A has cited the instability along the Strait of Hormuz as a contributing factor to the price increase at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices climbed about 3% percent earlier today as the war with Iran continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Pump prices have increased by nearly thirty cents in Berks County in the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,7678,8098,41079,61750,736,128,130,129,66034,79206],"class_list":["post-249801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-fuel","tag-gas-prices","tag-iran","tag-oil-prices","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-triple-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249801","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=249801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}