{"id":73105,"date":"2026-05-05T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/rubio-insists-us-is-very-fortunate-as-iran-war-pushes-gas-price-near-4-50\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:23:05","slug":"rubio-insists-us-is-very-fortunate-as-iran-war-pushes-gas-price-near-4-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/rubio-insists-us-is-very-fortunate-as-iran-war-pushes-gas-price-near-4-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio insists US is \u2018very fortunate\u2019 as Iran war pushes gas price near $4.50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state says US is better off than other countries hit by disruption in oil supplies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a> has argued the US is in a \u201cvery fortunate\u201d position as fuel prices continue to climb nationwide amid disruption sparked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US-Israel war on Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/29\/gas-prices-hormuz-oil-surge\">US fuel prices<\/a> now approaching $4.50 a gallon \u2013 their highest level in four years \u2013 the US secretary of state was asked on Tuesday how long Americans should accept them at such levels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/05\/marco-rubio-iran-gas-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state says US is better off than other countries hit by disruption in oil supplies Marco Rubio has argued the US is in a \u201cvery fortunate\u201d position as fuel prices continue to climb nationwide amid disruption sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran. With average US fuel prices now approaching $4.50 a &#8230; <a title=\"Rubio insists US is \u2018very fortunate\u2019 as Iran war pushes gas price near $4.50\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/rubio-insists-us-is-very-fortunate-as-iran-war-pushes-gas-price-near-4-50\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rubio insists US is \u2018very fortunate\u2019 as Iran war pushes gas price near $4.50\">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-73105","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\/73105","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=73105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}