gas prices jumped an average of 27 cents<\/a> compared to last week and Pennsylvania is one of the states feeling it the most.<\/p>\nNew Jersey and Delaware are also seeing increases. <\/p>\n
On Friday, March 6, drivers in Pennsylvania paid an average of $3.45 which is 34 cents higher than a week ago.<\/p>\n
Delaware drivers saw the same jump with the average now $3.25. <\/p>\n
For New Jersey drivers, they’re paying 29 cents more facing an average of $3.20. <\/p>\n
The jump in prices is hitting people who rely on driving to pay their bills the most. <\/p>\n
“I\u2019m an Uber driver for me. It\u2019s too bad,” Hussein Zohirodin said. “Last week I made money because gas was low but right now it\u2019s too high. It\u2019s crazy.”<\/p>\n
According to AAA, one reason for the jump is the conflict in the Middle East which has sent prices higher to the mid-$70 per barrel range. <\/p>\n
They say that the last time the national average made a similar weekly jump was back in March of 2022 during the start of the Russian\/Ukraine conflict. <\/p>\n
For some drivers in Philadelphia, they told NBC10 that they are limiting the time they spend behind the wheel. <\/p>\n
“I’ve been in the house the entire day actually. I\u2019m just out here to get some gas and then go back in the house,” Rudolph Romulus said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you had to fill up your gas tank recently and were shocked by the price of gas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,915,28,69,71,70,60154],"class_list":["post-131892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-war-in-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}