{"id":379710,"date":"2026-06-29T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:28:31","slug":"where-gas-prices-stand-in-central-valley-ahead-of-4th-of-july-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379710\/","title":{"rendered":"Where gas prices stand in Central Valley ahead of 4th of July travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The countdown to Independence Day begins. It&#8217;s a big one this year for America&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Many are already hitting the roads for early celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AAA expects more than 60 million Americans to hit the road. That would be a new record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Some good news for drivers is that gas prices are falling, including in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prices have dropped 58 cents in the last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AAA says the average price for a gallon of gas is now $3.87. They note that&#8217;s still almost 30 percent higher than before the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If you&#8217;re looking for some bargains in the Valley, GasBuddy reports the cheapest gas in Fresno County is at the EZ Stop on West Shaw at $4.29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In Merced County, it&#8217;s the ARCO in Santa Nella at $4.91.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In Tulare County, the Sinclair on Blackstone is at $4.52.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For news updates, follow Danyelle Burke North on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/burkenorthnews.abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@burke.northnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Calculator not displaying correctly? <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/dig.abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/interactives\/gas_calc\/gas_calc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to open in a new window<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The countdown to Independence Day begins. It&#8217;s a big one this year for America&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[153563,151352,30294,112,114,113,147,70312,294],"class_list":["post-379710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-153563","tag-4th-of-july","tag-aaa","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-gas-prices","tag-gasbuddy","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379710","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=379710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}