{"id":60011,"date":"2026-04-09T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/60011\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:53:17","slug":"south-dakota-gas-prices-rise-as-strait-of-hormuz-uncertainty-fuels-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/60011\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Gas Prices Rise as Strait of Hormuz Uncertainty Fuels Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; South Dakotans are paying about 51 cents more per gallon on average than they were a year ago, according to GasBuddy, which tracks fuel prices nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gas price volatility has continued in the wake of a ceasefire announcement involving the United States and Iran. Even with the truce, uncertainty remains over the status of the Strait of Hormuz after conflicting public statements from both sides about whether traffic through the waterway is fully open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Patrick De Haan, Head of Petroleum Analysis at GasBuddy, says the Strait of Hormuz is a critical chokepoint for global supply. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWith this situation continuing to evolve, continuing to see rapid swings in escalation and de-escalation, it\u2019s really hard to have an accurate and definitive forecast for what we\u2019re looking at this summer,\u201d De Haan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The International Energy Agency has described the current disruption as the largest supply shock to the global oil market in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a> to report it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/community\/user-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Send it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; South Dakotans are paying about 51 cents more per gallon on average than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1609,3065,4197,1885,154,3593,897,22682,102,2220,1137,213,825,4454,22053,101,2139],"class_list":{"0":"post-60011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-ceasefire","10":"tag-consumer","11":"tag-disruption","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-fuel","14":"tag-gas","15":"tag-gasbuddy","16":"tag-hormuz","17":"tag-market","18":"tag-middle-east-tensions","19":"tag-oil","20":"tag-prices","21":"tag-shipping-route","22":"tag-south-dakota","23":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","24":"tag-supply-chain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116376738420826071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}