{"id":208315,"date":"2026-03-17T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:14:55","slug":"gas-prices-increase-again-to-highest-cost-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208315\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices increase again to highest cost in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Gas prices are entering their third week of steady increases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of Monday, the average price for a gallon of gas stood at $3.72, the highest price for regular gas since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">President Donald Trump appealed to several countries over the weekend to help open the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iran\u2019s military has kept the vital waterway virtually closed since strikes there began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">So far, no nation has committed warships to help secure the waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since the start of the conflict in Iran, gas prices have surged 74 cents a gallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Gas prices are entering their third week of steady increases. As of Monday, the average price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[81729,81728,81727,20541,81726,1544,81731,81725,81724,31231,81732,81730,168,170,169,1545],"class_list":["post-208315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-average-gas","tag-average-gas-price","tag-average-gas-prices","tag-gas-price","tag-gas-price-today","tag-gas-prices","tag-gas-prices-iran","tag-gas-prices-today","tag-gas-today","tag-iran","tag-iran-gas-prices","tag-iran-oil","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-oil-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}