FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Gas prices jumped 20 cents overnight in the Fort Myers and Cape Coral area, now sitting at $4.13 per gallon as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Monday’s average from AAA was $3.94. The current price is above the county and statewide averages in Florida, but remains lower than the national average.<\/p>\n
Diesel prices dipped slightly. An all-time high was posted earlier this month.<\/p>\n
One driver, Ed Lebon, said he’s not hopeful about a price drop anytime soon.<\/p>\n
“Of course, I wanted to go down as soon as possible. You know what I mean? Just got to be patient. Hopefully, everything will go back to normal. But it’s not gonna be anytime soon,” Lebon said.<\/p>\n
The Naples area saw a similar jump, around 20 cents overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Gas prices jumped 20 cents overnight in the Fort Myers and Cape Coral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,7353,325,115],"class_list":["post-249383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collier","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249383","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=249383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}