{"id":412838,"date":"2026-09-28T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412838\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:40:08","slug":"florida-gas-prices-rose-another-18-cents-last-week-wpb-boca-remains-highest-at-4-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412838\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices rose another 18 cents last week; WPB-Boca remains highest at $4.50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Florida gas prices climbed sharply last week before easing slightly through the weekend, though drivers in the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton area are still paying the highest average price in the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AAA <\/a>said Florida\u2019s average price for regular unleaded gasoline rose 18 cents last week, then declined 6 cents through the weekend. Friday\u2019s statewide average of $4.42 per gallon was the highest since May, according to AAA.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, Florida\u2019s average stood at $4.34 per gallon \u2014 about 6 cents higher than a week ago, nearly 40 cents higher than a month ago and about $1.41 more than a year ago, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=FL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AAA\u2019s daily price tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The West Palm Beach-Boca Raton metro area had the state\u2019s highest average at $4.50 per gallon Monday. That was about 7 cents higher than a week earlier and 41 cents above the average one month ago.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/fiery-crash-involving-car-tractor-trailer-shuts-down-northbound-i-95-near-indiantown-rdi-95-crash-indiantown-road-tractor-trailer-crash-car-crash-fiery-crash-palm-beach-county-jupiter-traffic-i-95-northbound-traffic-closure-crash-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Honda driver killed after car crashes into truck, catches fire on I-95 in Martin County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins said last week\u2019s increase followed a rise in oil prices. The price of U.S. crude settled at $92 per barrel Friday, down from $100 a barrel the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, oil prices moved lower last week,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cThat could ease some of the upward pressure on prices at the pump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AAA estimated the average Florida driver now pays about $65 to fill a tank, compared with roughly $44 at this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Florida gas prices climbed sharply last week before easing slightly through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-412838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412838","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=412838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}