{"id":345856,"date":"2026-07-20T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:00:08","slug":"florida-gas-prices-jump-19-cents-in-the-past-week-aaa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345856\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices jump 19 cents in the past week, AAA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Florida drivers saw a sharp spike in gas prices last week, caused by a combination of Middle East tensions and summer demand, AAA is reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state average jumped 19 cents per gallon early in the week before easing slightly through the weekend. Friday\u2019s average price of $3.96 per gallon was the highest daily average since early June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is slightly lower that the national average of $4 a gallon. The average price a year ago was $3.14 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cGeopolitical tensions can create volatility in energy markets, and that\u2019s exactly what drivers saw last week,\u201d as the U.S. and Iran move closer to resuming an all-out war, said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA &#8211; The Auto Club Group said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sunday\u2019s state average of $3.94 per gallon is 12 cents more than a week ago and 84 cents more than last year, AAA says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gas prices first went over $4 a gallon on average at the end of March. They dipped below that in mid-June and continued to fall as crude oil prices eased when the U.S. and Iran reached an interim deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Even then, President Donald Trump expressed frustration that gas prices weren\u2019t falling as quickly as oil prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Affordability is likely to be a key issue for voters in the U.S. midterm elections, and higher gas and oil prices can help push up prices for groceries and other goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8212; Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida drivers saw a sharp spike in gas prices last week, caused by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11246,28,30,29,4805,11566],"class_list":["post-345856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-aaa","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gas","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345856","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=345856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}