{"id":394075,"date":"2026-09-08T21:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394075\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:38:14","slug":"4-19-a-gallon-for-gas-in-orlando-following-labor-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394075\/","title":{"rendered":"$4.19 a gallon for gas in Orlando following Labor Day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Gas prices were seen back up over the $4 mark in Orlando on Tuesday after a Labor Day weekend that saw prices hover around $3.90 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">News 6 spotted a Wawa station with $4.19 a gallon for regular unleaded, $5.89 a gallon for diesel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\">AAA recorded the average price in Orlando <\/a>on Tuesday as $3.834 a gallon for regular, $5.6706 for diesel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">It\u2019s not the highest price Orlando drivers have paid in the last five years. In June of 2022, we saw gas prices as high as $4.8901 a gallon, just months after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">After the conflict in Iran began earlier this year, average gas prices hit $4.436 a gallon in Orlando at one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins says gas prices tend to drop after Labor Day as demand falls, but continued conflict in the Middle East is keeping prices high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cThere doesn\u2019t really seem to be a clear signal of strong relief in sight,\u201d Jenkins said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Jenkins says the peak of the price cycle is higher following a jump in oil prices, which are now at a six-week high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The price of diesel fuel, used for trucks, buses, construction equipment and more, hit an all-time high nationally of $5.90 per gallon on Tuesday, up more than $2 per gallon since last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Information from News Service of Central Florida as used in this report.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;width:234px;height:50px\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788903494_659_wkmg_breaking.png\" width=\"234\" height=\"50\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf eUxjKG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Gas prices were seen back up over the $4 mark in Orlando on Tuesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[558,1917,740,11248,1335,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-394075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-business","tag-consumer","tag-economy","tag-gas-prices","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394075","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=394075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}