{"id":70071,"date":"2026-03-26T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/epa-approves-sale-of-higher-ethanol-fuel-in-bid-to-lower-gas-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:01:22","slug":"epa-approves-sale-of-higher-ethanol-fuel-in-bid-to-lower-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/epa-approves-sale-of-higher-ethanol-fuel-in-bid-to-lower-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA approves sale of higher-ethanol fuel in bid to lower gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Higher blend has been prohibited in warm weather because of concerns it could worsen smog<\/p>\n<p>The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that it would temporarily allow widespread sales of a higher-ethanol gas blend in a move that it hopes will tamp down consumer prices that have soared since the Iran war began.<\/p>\n<p>The higher-ethanol blend has been prohibited in warm weather because of concerns it could worsen smog.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/26\/epa-higher-ethanol-fuel-gas-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher blend has been prohibited in warm weather because of concerns it could worsen smog The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that it would temporarily allow widespread sales of a higher-ethanol gas blend in a move that it hopes will tamp down consumer prices that have soared since the Iran war began. The &#8230; <a title=\"EPA approves sale of higher-ethanol fuel in bid to lower gas prices\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/epa-approves-sale-of-higher-ethanol-fuel-in-bid-to-lower-gas-prices\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EPA approves sale of higher-ethanol fuel in bid to lower gas prices\">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-70071","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\/70071","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=70071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}