{"id":1917,"date":"2011-04-18T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2011-04-18T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T17:28:57","slug":"gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gas-pump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1918\" title=\"gas pump\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gas-pump-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gas-pump-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gas-pump-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gas-pump-342x268.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gas-pump.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This past Sunday, a total of six states passed the $4 per gallon mark,  with New York being the latest one. The nations capital, Washington,  D.C., was also affected by the growing gas prices, also hitting the $4  mark. The national average has increased over the last 26 days, the  highest being found in Hawaii at $4.48 per gallon. Other states  currently at the $4 mark are Alaska, California, Connecticut, and  Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The unrest in Libya has been a major factor in these rising prices,  cutting off exports from that country once it&#8217;s citizens turned to  violence. Gas prices have surged by 22 percent since that incident, and  42 percent since the Labor Day holiday. Even though consumers have cut  back in the amount of gas they are getting, it is still expected by the  government that prices will continue to climb through out the summer  months as people vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday, a total of six states passed the $4 per gallon mark, with New York being the latest one. The nations capital, Washington, D.C., was also affected by the growing gas prices, also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[921,1061,685,919],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-gas-prices","tag-going-up","tag-libya","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}