{"id":68520,"date":"2026-03-09T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/california-gas-prices-rise-above-5-a-gallon-amid-us-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:59:43","slug":"california-gas-prices-rise-above-5-a-gallon-amid-us-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/california-gas-prices-rise-above-5-a-gallon-amid-us-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West coast state\u2019s average cost per gallon has climbed $0.55 since the conflict in Middle East began over a week ago<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/09\/iran-war-live-updates-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-oil-prices-soar\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">war<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> has caused a spike in gas prices that is hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> consumers especially hard, according to data from the American Automobile Association (AAA).<\/p>\n<p>AAA <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\">reports<\/a> that in California, the most expensive US market for gas, the average price per gallon on Monday was $5.20, compared to $3.47 nationally. The national average climbed nearly $0.50 since the conflict began more than a week ago, while in the Golden state it rose by $0.55.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/09\/california-gas-prices-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West coast state\u2019s average cost per gallon has climbed $0.55 since the conflict in Middle East began over a week ago Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The war in Iran has caused a spike in gas prices that is hitting California consumers especially hard, according &#8230; <a title=\"California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/california-gas-prices-rise-above-5-a-gallon-amid-us-war-with-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}