{"id":85950,"date":"2026-03-05T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85950"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:33:28","slug":"what-the-iran-war-is-doing-to-uk-fuel-prices-and-mortgage-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/what-the-iran-war-is-doing-to-uk-fuel-prices-and-mortgage-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Iran war is doing to UK fuel prices and mortgage rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62817\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/petrol-sale-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/petrol-sale-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/petrol-sale-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/petrol-sale.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rising conflict in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices higher, with potential consequences for household bills, pensions and even mortgage rates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/what-the-iran-war-is-doing-to-uk-fuel-prices-and-mortgage-rates\/ar-AA1XnP2Z?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a936e78eca4c0ea7a886e621113728&amp;cvpid=68f6afab36a14607d9ebdd95b8679296&amp;ei=72\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Rising conflict in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices higher, with potential consequences for household bills, pensions and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/High-mortgage.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85952,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85950\/revisions\/85952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}