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<\/a><\/p>\nGas prices in Florida increased overnight, with AAA reporting Wednesday\u2019s average at $4.07 per gallon, up from $3.89 the day before. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I just finished filling up my tank, I was just confused. I was like, this number is usually never on the screen,\u201d said Deven Alvarado, an Orlando resident. <\/p>\n
In eight Central Florida counties, the average price is at or above the state\u2019s average, leading drivers to make more intentional decisions about their travel. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019m going to the supermarket… I can bring more home instead of driving out, going to the store, coming back, going back,\u201d Alvarado said. <\/p>\n
Business owners who spend much of their day driving are feeling the impact even more. Isaac Vazquez, visiting Central Florida from Massachusetts for work, said he had to fill his tank five times to get to the area. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt cost me almost $900,\u201d Vazquez said. \u201cLast year, it was around 4-something, maybe $500, so it\u2019s been a drastic difference.\u201d <\/p>\n
Vazquez added that the rising fuel costs are cutting into his earnings. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the week, it\u2019s just like there is no bottom line left,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Other drivers are finding ways to cope, including relying more on credit cards, canceling gym memberships, substituting driving with alternative transportation like scooters, and simply staying home if they don\u2019t have anywhere essential to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices jump overnight, leaving drivers struggling to adjust Gas prices in Florida rose sharply overnight to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11246,21929,34495,166,157509,2675,89135,28,35854,30,29,157508,26392,157510,157511,14163,2393,2486,1328],"class_list":["post-394925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-aaa","tag-average","tag-central-florida-county","tag-day","tag-deven-alvarado","tag-driver","tag-fields","tag-florida","tag-florida-gas-price","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-isaac-vazquez","tag-massachusetts","tag-more-intentional-decision","tag-orlando-resident","tag-tank","tag-time","tag-wednesday","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394925","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=394925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}