{"id":220379,"date":"2026-04-06T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220379\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:37:21","slug":"florida-gas-prices-top-4-a-gallon-for-first-time-in-four-years-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220379\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices top $4 a gallon for first time in four years \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida gas prices are the highest they\u2019ve been in four years with state averages peaking at $4.23 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Prices surged $0.28 last week before declining $0.03 through the weekend, according to AAA \u2013 The Auto Club Group.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s state average of $4.21 per gallon is $0.25 more than a week ago, $0.97 more than last month and $1.01 per gallon more than this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average Florida driver now pays about $20 more to fill up than a month ago,\u201d said spokesman Mark Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins said the rise is due to oil prices \u201cas the conflict in Iran disrupts global fuel supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida gas prices have jumped as much as $1.35 per gallon over the past month, rising from $2.88 per gallon to more than $4.20 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive metro markets are West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($4.35), Gainesville ($4.28) and Naples ($4.27).<\/p>\n<p>The least expensive metro markets are Pensacola ($3.91), Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($3.91) and Panama City ($3.92).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices are the highest they\u2019ve been in four years with state averages peaking at $4.23 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,29,114,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-220379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220379","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=220379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}