{"id":151,"date":"2026-10-14T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/?p=151"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:41:39","slug":"kenyans-to-face-hard-economic-times-ever-as-fuel-prices-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans to face hard economic times ever as fuel prices hikes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenyans will face hard economic times following latest reports by Energy and petroleum regulation authority(EPRA)  prices review that recorded a historical increase in kerosene, diesel and petroleum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Super petrol price rises by Sh12.93, reading a sale price of Ksh 226.96, diesel increasing  by Sh9.90 recording a  Ksh226 pump price and  kerosene price shoot  by Sh28.49 causing Ksh219 selling price  in EPRA&#8217;s latest monthly pump review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thi hike in the prices will means an increase in transport cost that will affect the transport industry causing them to increase the charges for services offered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/InShot_20261014_192410418.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyans will face hard economic times following latest reports by Energy and petroleum regulation authority(EPRA)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}