{"id":602703,"date":"2023-09-11T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602703"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T06:57:41","slug":"searing-temperature-fast-becoming-a-threat-to-global-fuel-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/searing-temperature-fast-becoming-a-threat-to-global-fuel-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Searing temperature fast becoming a threat to global fuel security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searing temperatures from Texas to Tokyo over the summer are the latest reminder of a growing headache for the energy system, as extreme heat becomes a threat to fuel supply. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to causing spikes in electricity demand as people fire up air conditioners, the scorching temperatures have led to a spate of disruptions at oil refineries. That\u2019s helped keep US gasoline prices elevated and saw diesel cost increases easily outpace those for crude. This summer was particularly grueling: July was the world\u2019s hottest month on record, following the hottest June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searing temperatures from Texas to Tokyo over the summer are the latest reminder of a growing headache for the energy system, as extreme heat becomes a threat to fuel supply. In addition to causing spikes in electricity demand as people fire up air conditioners, the scorching temperatures have led to a spate of disruptions at oil refineries. That\u2019s helped keep US gasoline prices elevated and saw diesel cost increases easily outpace those for crude. This summer was particularly grueling: July was the world\u2019s hottest month on record, following the hottest June.<\/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-602703","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\/602703","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=602703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}