{"id":475302,"date":"2022-03-14T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475302"},"modified":"2022-03-14T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:22:49","slug":"uber-adds-fuel-surcharge-in-us-and-canada-due-to-high-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uber-adds-fuel-surcharge-in-us-and-canada-due-to-high-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber adds fuel surcharge in US and Canada due to high gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to surging gas prices, ride-hailing company Uber has announced that it is adding a surcharge on fares and deliveries in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Rideshare riders will pay a $0.50 surcharge on every ride and, on Uber Eats where trips are shorter, consumer fees will be adjusted to cover the equivalent of a $0.35 surcharge on every delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that 100 per cent of surcharges will go directly to drivers and delivery people.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary fee is designed to reduce the burden of high gas prices, not to cover the full cost of a tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to surging gas prices, ride-hailing company Uber has announced that it is adding a surcharge on fares and deliveries in the US and Canada. Rideshare riders will pay a $0.50 surcharge on every ride and, on Uber Eats where trips are shorter, consumer fees will be adjusted to cover the equivalent of a $0.35 surcharge on every delivery. The company said that 100 per cent of surcharges will go directly to drivers and delivery people. The temporary fee is designed to reduce the burden of high gas prices, not to cover the full cost of a tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}