{"id":322061,"date":"2026-05-19T01:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:08:40","slug":"fresno-gas-hovers-near-6-as-prices-jump-29-cents-in-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322061\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno gas hovers near $6 as prices jump 29 cents in a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Drivers in Fresno are paying more at the pump this week, with average gas prices climbing to nearly $6 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Average gasoline prices in Fresno rose 4.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $5.98 a gallon today, according to GasBuddy\u2019s survey of 364 stations in Fresno. <\/p>\n<p>Prices in Fresno are 29.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and are $1.09 a gallon higher than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>GasBuddy price reports showed the cheapest station in Fresno was priced at $5.45 a gallon yesterday, while the most expensive was $6.99 a gallon, a difference of $1.54 a gallon. <\/p>\n<p>,Across California, the lowest price yesterday was $4.49 a gallon and the highest was $9.95 a gallon, a difference of $5.46 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the average price of gasoline fell 1 cent per gallon in the last week to $4.47 a gallon. <\/p>\n<p>The national average is up 45.2 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands $1.33 a gallon higher than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the historical gasoline prices in Fresno and the national average going back five years:<\/p>\n<p>May 18, 2025: $4.89\/g (U.S. Average: $3.14\/g) May 18, 2024: $5.08\/g (U.S. Average: $3.58\/g) May 18, 2023: $4.58\/g (U.S. Average: $3.52\/g) May 18, 2022: $5.90\/g (U.S. Average: $4.58\/g) May 18, 2021: $4.01\/g (U.S. Average: $3.04\/g)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Drivers in Fresno are paying more at the pump this week, with average gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-322061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322061","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=322061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}