{"id":403620,"date":"2026-09-18T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403620\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:50:08","slug":"spiking-jacksonville-diesel-prices-hit-record-high-straining-local-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403620\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiking Jacksonville diesel prices hit record high, straining local businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjcitizen.com\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Diesel prices <\/a>have soared nearly 73% in Jacksonville over the past year, while regular gasoline is up 35% as turmoil in the Middle East squeezes global fuel supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The average price of diesel stood at $6.34 a gallon Thursday, compared with $3.68 a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to AAA. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regular gasoline averaged $4.36, up from $3.22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diesel hit a record Jacksonville average of $6.36 on Monday, eclipsing the previous highs recorded during the 2022 energy shock. Thursday\u2019s price remained just 2 cents below that peak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regular gas has not returned to record territory, as Jacksonville\u2019s all-time high for regular unleaded was $4.88 in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But prices at the pump have climbed quickly in recent weeks. Regular gas is up about 42 cents a gallon, or 11%, from a month ago. Diesel has jumped 83 cents, or 15%, during the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The increases come as the prolonged conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran disrupts oil production and shipping through the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-added-loading=\"\" data-od-removed-fetchpriority=\"high\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='elementor elementor-74 elementor-location-single post-23841 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-featured-2']\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[10][self::DIV]\/*[8][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/chart-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chart of gas prices\" class=\"wp-image-23844\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Diesel prices hit a new record high on Monday. (AAA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attacks on Saudi Arabia\u2019s East-West Pipeline \u2014 a crucial route for bypassing the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 temporarily halted the movement of millions of barrels a day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanker traffic through the strait also remains disrupted, while the war in Ukraine has reduced global refining capacity and diesel exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those pressures have pushed crude oil above $100 a barrel. Brent crude traded near $104 Friday, while U.S. benchmark oil hovered around $102.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diesel has been hit particularly hard because global supplies were already thin. The national average reached about $6.29 this week, 68% higher than a year ago, according to AAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jacksonville increase has been even steeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fuel powers most commercial trucks, farm equipment and construction machinery, raising the cost of transporting food and other goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diesel prices have soared nearly 73% in Jacksonville over the past year, while regular gasoline is up 35%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100085,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-403620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-featured-2","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403620","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=403620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}