{"id":412738,"date":"2026-09-28T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412738\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:30:07","slug":"florida-gas-prices-rose-18-cents-last-week-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412738\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices rose 18 cents last week \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s gas prices rose 18 cents last week before declining 6 cents through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the state average for a gallon of gas was $4.37, according to NWS Melbourne.\u00a0That\u2019s 7 cents more than a week ago, 41 cents more than last month and $1.42 per gallon more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGasoline prices bounced higher last week, in response to oil price gains the week before,\u201d said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA \u2013 The Auto Club Group.<\/p>\n<p>The average driver is currently paying $65 to fill their tank, as opposed to $44 at this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($4.52), Naples ($4.48) and Gainesville ($4.43) are the most expensive metro markets.\u00a0Pensacola ($4.08), Panama City ($4.11) and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($4.12) are the least expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The current average price in Orlando is $4.34 per gallon, according to AAA. That\u2019s 8 cents more than last week, 40 cents more than last month and $1.43 more than last year.\u00a0Diesel prices in the area lowered to $5.98 per gallon, after a record-setting price last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s gas prices rose 18 cents last week before declining 6 cents through the weekend. On Sunday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,29,114,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-412738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412738","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=412738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}