{"id":284482,"date":"2026-05-26T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:14:08","slug":"floridians-could-see-relief-at-the-pump-if-lawmakers-factor-it-into-the-new-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284482\/","title":{"rendered":"Floridians could see relief at the pump if lawmakers factor it into the new budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida residents could see some relief at the pump soon.<\/p>\n<p>It all depends on the state&#8217;s lawmakers and if they decide to include it in the new budget.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis says he would support a temporary gas tax holiday, if that is the direction lawmakers choose to go.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would suspend part of Florida&#8217;s fuel tax to lower prices at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Department of Revenue, the state&#8217;s gas tax is currently around 38\u00a2 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The last gas tax holiday in Florida was in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis highlighted one issue with the last tax relief measure. The tax went down but gas stations raised their prices.<\/p>\n<p>The governor did suggest an alternative: providing relief through commuter toll reductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida residents could see some relief at the pump soon. It all depends on the state&#8217;s lawmakers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-284482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284482","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=284482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}