{"id":266480,"date":"2026-05-11T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266480\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:40:07","slug":"florida-gas-prices-slightly-drop-after-hitting-4-year-high-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266480\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices slightly drop after hitting 4-year high \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s gas prices are trending lower after hitting record highs last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the state average for a gallon of gas was $4.43, after peaking on Thursday at $4.50 per gallon, according to AAA \u2013 The Auto Club Group.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s price is 10 cents more than a week ago, 34 cents more than a month ago, and $1.48 more than this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fuel market remains headline-driven and extremely volatile, making it difficult to predict what drivers will pay at the pump this summer,\u201d said spokesman Mark Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive metro markets are West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($4.58), Naples ($4.52) and Gainesville ($4.51).<\/p>\n<p>The least expensive metro markets are Pensacola ($4.12), Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($4.15) and Panama City ($4.17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s gas prices are trending lower after hitting record highs last week. On Sunday, the state average for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266481,"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-266480","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\/266480","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=266480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}