{"id":174524,"date":"2019-06-26T14:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=174524"},"modified":"2019-06-26T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:18:42","slug":"gas-prices-could-jump-when-philly-refinery-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=174524","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices could jump when Philly refinery closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-122021\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GaspumpHand-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GaspumpHand-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GaspumpHand-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GaspumpHand.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 AAA says gasoline prices may increase after the announcement that a Philadelphia oil refinery will close after a devastating fire.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Jana Tidwell says motorists in the Mid-Atlantic region will likely see modest price increases at the pump leading into the high-demand summer travel season.<\/p>\n<p>The markets research company FactSet reported that gasoline futures prices spiked Tuesday night after the first news of the refinery&#8217;s possible closure. Prices remained high Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Book is managing director at Clearview Energy Partners. He says the refinery has been an important source fueling transportation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the amount of gasoline that will be lost from the refinery is sizable but can easily be made up by imports from other regions and countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 AAA says gasoline prices may increase after the announcement that a Philadelphia oil refinery will close after a devastating fire. Spokeswoman Jana Tidwell says motorists in the Mid-Atlantic region will likely see modest price increases at the pump leading into the high-demand summer travel season. The markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174525,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174524\/revisions\/174525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}