{"id":106249,"date":"2026-01-05T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:09:10","slug":"florida-gas-prices-lower-than-last-year-but-uncertainty-looms-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106249\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices lower than last year, but uncertainty looms \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida gas prices are lower than a year ago, but global uncertainty could change that.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the state average was $2.83 per gallon, according to AAA \u2013 The Auto Club Group.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s $0.08 less than last year, $0.15 less than a month ago and $0.29 less than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices are stable at the moment in light of recent developments in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The country was a significant producer of crude oil, but sanctions have limited its exports for years.<\/p>\n<p>Global supply is sufficient, although any major disruption could put pressure on prices to increase.<\/p>\n<p>AAA expects Florida gas prices to fluctuate in the coming weeks due to seasonal demand and market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive metro markets are West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($3.00), Naples ($2.90) and Gainesville ($2.90).<\/p>\n<p>The least expensive metro markets are Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($2.56), Panama City ($2.61) and Pensacola ($2.63).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices are lower than a year ago, but global uncertainty could change that. On Sunday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,29,114,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-106249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-news","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}