Gas price in county 2nd highest in state<\/p>\n
Published 8:54 am Monday, March 23, 2026<\/p>\n
LONG BEACH \u2014 Despite a slight easing in the price of crude oil on international markets on Monday, March 23, gasoline and diesel remain expensive in Pacific County.
The average price at the pump for a gallon of regular was $5.61 in the county, compared to $5.274 statewide and $3.956 in the U.S. as a whole, according to AAA\u2019s daily survey. This made Pacific\u2019s price second highest in the state, trailing only San Juan County with $6.232. Wahkiakum was in third place with an average of $5.599.
Washington state charges 56.7 cents tax per gallon of gasoline, the third highest in the nation. The cost of transportation is an additional factor in higher-than-average gas prices in remote corners of Western Washington.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has brought a steep increase in prices this month, with regular increasing more than 94 cents a gallon in the state since Feb. 23. The average price of diesel has increased to an average of $6.405, a hike of more than $1.57 a gallon.
AAA says the highest recorded price of regular statewide in Washington was $5.555 in June 2022. The highest statewide average for diesel was $6.465 that June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas price in county 2nd highest in state Published 8:54 am Monday, March 23, 2026 LONG BEACH \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-232741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}