{"id":140163,"date":"2026-03-17T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140163\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:26:08","slug":"how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-scranton-in-the-last-week-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140163\/","title":{"rendered":"How gas prices have changed in Scranton in the last week | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/croppedshutterstock455672143V7GAjpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>pan demin \/\/ ShutterstockHow gas prices have changed in Scranton in the last week<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/pennsylvania\/scranton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled statistics on gas prices in Scranton&#8211;Wilkes-Barre&#8211;Hazleton, PA metro area using data from <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAA<\/a>. Gas prices are current as of March 16.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton by the numbers<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gas current price: $3.64<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Pennsylvania average: $3.70<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Week change: +$0.19 (+5.4%)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Year change: +$0.56 (+18.0%)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Historical expensive gas price: $5.17 (6\/14\/22)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Diesel current price: $5.37<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Week change: +$0.46 (+9.3%)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Year change: +$1.29 (+31.4%)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Historical expensive diesel price: $6.62 (5\/18\/22)<\/p>\n<p>Metros with the least expensive gas<\/p>\n<p>#1. Springfield, MO: $3.03<\/p>\n<p>#2. Le Flore-Sequoyah, OK: $3.04<\/p>\n<p>#3. Fort Smith (AR only), AR: $3.05<\/p>\n<p>Read on to see which metros have the most expensive gas prices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/croppedshutterstock2538141179EOBDjpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>Rangsarit Chaiyakun \/\/ Shutterstock#5. San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regular gas price: $5.65<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/croppedshutterstock2475715305WRQ4jpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>Elen Nika \/\/ Shutterstock#4. Santa Rosa, CA<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regular gas price: $5.68<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/croppedshutterstock151963727NHAIjpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>Christian Mueller \/\/ Shutterstock#3. San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regular gas price: $5.69<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/croppedshutterstock2113481246Z6VHjpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>jittawit21 \/\/ Shutterstock#2. San Rafael, CA<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regular gas price: $5.70<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/croppedshutterstock1208668198UCI7jpg.JPEG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100%\"\/>Daniel Avram \/\/ Shutterstock#1. Napa, CA<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Regular gas price: $5.71<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"pan demin \/\/ ShutterstockHow gas prices have changed in Scranton in the last week Stacker compiled statistics on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,1113],"class_list":["post-140163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-thestacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140163","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=140163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}