{"id":2651,"date":"2022-03-08T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2022-03-08T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:52:16","slug":"gas-prices-break-all-time-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2022\/03\/08\/gas-prices-break-all-time-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices Break All-time Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday evening, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2022\/03\/06\/gas-price-tops-4-dollar-gallon\/9402743002\/\" target=\"_blank\">average cost for a gallon of gas<\/a>\u00a0in the country is $4.06,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to AAA<\/a>. The current price, up 6 cents from Sunday and 45 cents from last week, is the closest it has ever been to the all-time record of $4.11, set in July 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/home?search=tampa%2C%20florida&amp;fuel=1&amp;maxAge=0&amp;method=all\">Gasbuddy<\/a>, the popular fuel-savings app that gives users the cost of gas in their area, had their online services go down temporarily on Monday due to record-breaking traffic as people\u00a0look\u00a0for the cheapest place to fill up their tank.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this morning prices spiked in central Florida to $4.19 per gallon average. The fuel prices are adding more pressure to already increasing prices. Inflation is expected to rise at record levels and put further strain on families budgets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think the gas increase is due to the War in Ukraine or failed policy by the current administration? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday evening, the\u00a0average cost for a gallon of gas\u00a0in the country is $4.06,\u00a0according to AAA. The current price, up 6 cents from Sunday and 45 cents from last week, is the closest it has ever been to the all-time record of $4.11, set in July 2008. Gasbuddy, the popular fuel-savings app that gives users the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2495,3112,47],"tags":[3390,3388,3389],"class_list":{"0":"post-2651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-central-florida-news","8":"category-florida","9":"category-politics","10":"tag-failed-policy","11":"tag-gas-prices","12":"tag-inflation"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}