{"id":516090,"date":"2026-03-11T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:31:07","slug":"lasting-surge-in-diesel-prices-would-batter-nations-truckers-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516090\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasting surge in diesel prices would batter nation\u2019s truckers, farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JL7QX7PXF5GOXLLDKNVONVNL34\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Trucker Heather Griffith saw the impact of the war in Iran on Tuesday on the fuel pump display at an AMPM convenience store in Lost Hills, California.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YSO5IBXFJBAVBGAXPIO5LHBOYU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Putting 100 gallons of diesel into her blue Peterbilt 389 truck cost her $642. With Iranian threats having effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic, the national average price of a gallon of diesel \u2014 already higher than regular gasoline \u2014 has jumped by nearly $1 in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trucker Heather Griffith saw the impact of the war in Iran on Tuesday on the fuel pump display&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-516090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}