{"id":5765,"date":"2026-08-07T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/07\/gas-prices-set-to-stay-high-this-fall-amid-refining-crunch-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:19:34","slug":"gas-prices-set-to-stay-high-this-fall-amid-refining-crunch-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/07\/gas-prices-set-to-stay-high-this-fall-amid-refining-crunch-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices Set to Stay High This Fall Amid Refining Crunch: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices are expected to remain high this fall due to a critical shortage in global refining capacity. Geopolitical conflicts, including drone strikes on Russian refineries and tensions in the Middle East, have significantly reduced the world&#8217;s ability to produce gasoline and other fuels. <\/p>\n<p>This tight supply environment is leading to record profits for U.S. refiners, even as crude oil prices fluctuate. Experts warn that consumers may face unusually expensive gas prices for this time of year due to these ongoing supply constraints.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/11\/gas-prices-remain-high-this-fall-why-refining-capacity-crunch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices are expected to remain high this fall due to a critical shortage in global refining capacity. Geopolitical conflicts, including drone strikes on Russian refineries and tensions in the Middle East, have significantly reduced the world&#8217;s ability to produce gasoline and other fuels. This tight supply environment is leading to record profits for U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108344720-17858666911785866689-47576936879-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1785866690&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","rifnote_country-china","rifnote_country-iran","rifnote_country-russia","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_country-venezuela","rifnote_executive-brian-mandell","rifnote_executive-darren-woods","rifnote_executive-gary-simmons","rifnote_executive-maryann-mannen","rifnote_executive-patrick-de-haan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108344720-17858666911785866689-47576936879-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1785866690&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}