{"id":58666,"date":"2025-11-24T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:51:06","slug":"florida-gas-prices-jump-just-in-time-for-thanksgiving-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58666\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gas prices jump, just in time for Thanksgiving travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida gas prices rose 20 cents per gallon last week, as millions of Americans prepare to travel for Thanksgiving, AAA says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In its annual Thanksgiving Travel Forecast, AAA says of the record-setting 81.8 million Americans expected to travel 50 miles or more, 90%, or 73 million, will drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Florida, more than 4.25 million residents are expected to venture out. Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons are forecast to be the busiest times on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFlorida gas prices jumped 20 cents last week, following a familiar trend of rising after a series of declines,\u201d said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA \u2013 The Auto Club Group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf that pattern holds, drivers could see prices ease as they hit the road for Thanksgiving. With pump prices matching last year\u2019s holiday, even a small drop would give travelers extra savings compared to 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Sunday, Florida gas prices averaged $3.10 per gallon, which is the same price as Thanksgiving Day 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Regional Prices<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most expensive metro markets \u2013 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($3.26), Naples ($3.20), Ocala ($3.17)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Least expensive metro markets \u2013 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($2.71), Pensacola ($2.73), Panama City ($2.75)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida gas prices rose 20 cents per gallon last week, as millions of Americans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11246,28,30,29,4805,35783,11566],"class_list":{"0":"post-58666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-aaa","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-gas","13":"tag-gasoline","14":"tag-prices"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58666","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=58666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}