{"id":76796,"date":"2026-03-24T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/iran-war-fuel-shortages-affecting-readers-worldwide"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:17:30","slug":"we-consider-every-mile-we-drive-how-fuel-shortages-are-affecting-readers-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76796","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We consider every mile we drive\u2019: how fuel shortages are affecting readers worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a shop owner in India to a community worker in New South Wales, rising fuel prices are forcing people to ration oil usage<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/23\/middle-east-crisis-live-iea-chief-says-iran-war-energy-crunch-worse-than-1970s-oil-crises-and-ukraine-war-combined\"><strong>Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alagesan, 35, needs liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to run his roadside drink and snack shop in Coimbatore, India, but with the fuel shortage since the US-Israel attacks on Iran, he worries his business could fold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am far away from the Middle East, but my life is affected,\u201d he said. \u201cThe gas cylinder is not available because of the war. I don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/iran-war-fuel-shortages-affecting-readers-worldwide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a shop owner in India to a community worker in New South Wales, rising fuel prices are forcing people to ration oil usageMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesAlagesan, 35, needs liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to run his roadside drink and snack shop in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,666,657,62,816,603,449,1945,561,61,52,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-business","category-commodities","category-energy-industry","category-india","category-new-south-wales","category-northern-ireland","category-oil","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-scotland","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76796\/revisions\/76813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}