{"id":9571,"date":"2020-04-02T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:33:20","slug":"news-press-now-oil-price-war-continues-to-drop-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/02\/news-press-now-oil-price-war-continues-to-drop-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Oil price war continues to drop gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-98125322-8263-11e9-a93d-c385ebb1beca-asset-b34e381c-74e9-11ea-90df-2f8dc7f2f230\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/29\/0297d11c-7503-11ea-a9bd-a7fd9403a6d0\/5e8619ff02798.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C900\" alt=\"gas pumps reflect low prices\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/>By Bailey Ketcham, News-Press NOW, <\/span>Apr 2, 2020<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Drivers in St. Joseph can go to a gas station and find gas for as little as $1.69 due to the low demand for oil during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Gas prices started to drop when Saudi Arabia announced it would flood the market with extra oil and slash prices due to a price war with Russia. According to the American Automobile Association, the national average is below $2 a gallon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Dr. Kara Grant, an assistant economics professor at ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½, said this would typically be the time for people to stock up on gas, but because many are quarantined, there\u2019s less driving and less of a need for gas.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and see the video version of this story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/oil-price-war-continues-to-drop-gas-prices\/article_b34e381c-74e9-11ea-90df-2f8dc7f2f230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bailey Ketcham, News-Press NOW, Apr 2, 2020 Drivers in St. Joseph can go to a gas station and find gas for as little as $1.69 due to the low demand for oil during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gas prices started to drop when Saudi Arabia announced it would flood the market with extra oil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}