{"id":394701,"date":"2026-09-09T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394701\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:06:28","slug":"swfl-gas-prices-spike-overnight-amid-global-tensions-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394701\/","title":{"rendered":"SWFL gas prices spike overnight amid global tensions | Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Gas prices spiked in September across Southwest Florida, leaving drivers doing a double take at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>Regular gas at a RaceTrac on U.S. 41 in Fort Myers was $4.19 a gallon. AAA&#8217;s numbers show the average in Fort Myers and Cape Coral is now $4.11 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s up about 24 cents just since Tuesday. Statewide, the average jumped about 18 cents overnight\u2014from $3.90 to $4.08 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>AAA said this is a time of year when drivers would normally start to see some relief at the pump as summer travel slows down. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/international\/oil-rises-past-100-a-barrel-after-the-latest-wave-of-middle-east-attacks\/article_fb620190-b7a9-51f9-b65e-1cfda19f7c51.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">continued tensions in the Middle East<\/a> and disruptions to global oil supplies are keeping prices volatile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to gas prices, they&#8217;ve been hovering around the same level for the past couple of months. People are kind of expecting to pay more at the pump,&#8221; said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA Auto Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Gas prices spiked in September across Southwest Florida, leaving drivers doing a double&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,115,121785],"class_list":["post-394701","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-news","tag-southwest_florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394701","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=394701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}