{"id":273078,"date":"2026-06-21T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:13:23","slug":"gas-prices-drop-below-4-per-gallon-for-first-time-since-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273078\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices drop below $4 per gallon for first time since March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; For the first time since the end of March, the average cost of gas is below $4 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">AAA says the national average is $3.97. That\u2019s a 12-cent drop from a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The price at the pump has been dropping for four straight weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Experts say crude oil prices are down as the U.S. and Iran reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">AAA shows drivers in several states are still paying more than the national average. Right now, the average across New York is $4.27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the Watertown area, the price has dropped 11 cents in a week to $4.31.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; For the first time since the end of March, the average cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23093,105171,36442,22875,531,9,11,10,49,51,50,7524,3904],"class_list":["post-273078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaa","tag-decline","tag-drop","tag-gas-prices","tag-national","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-watertown","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}