{"id":140303,"date":"2026-03-17T04:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:55:16","slug":"how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-reading-in-the-last-week-wpxi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140303\/","title":{"rendered":"How gas prices have changed in Reading in the last week \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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pan demin \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

How gas prices have changed in Reading in the last week<\/p>\n

Stacker<\/a> compiled statistics on gas prices in Reading, PA metro area using data from AAA<\/a>. Gas prices are current as of March 16.<\/p>\n

Reading by the numbers
– Gas current price: $3.73
— Pennsylvania average: $3.70
– Week change: +$0.07 (+2.0%)
– Year change: +$0.58 (+18.4%)
– Historical expensive gas price: $5.04 (6\/13\/22)<\/p>\n

– Diesel current price: $5.22
– Week change: +$0.27 (+5.4%)
– Year change: +$1.25 (+31.6%)
– Historical expensive diesel price: $6.43 (5\/19\/22)<\/p>\n

Metros with the least expensive gas
#1. Springfield, MO: $3.03
#2. Le Flore-Sequoyah, OK: $3.04
#3. Fort Smith (AR only), AR: $3.05<\/p>\n

Read on to see which metros have the most expensive gas prices.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Avram \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

#5. San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $5.65<\/p>\n

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Rangsarit Chaiyakun \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

#4. Santa Rosa, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $5.68<\/p>\n

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jittawit21 \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

#3. San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $5.69<\/p>\n

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Istvan Csak \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

#2. San Rafael, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $5.70<\/p>\n

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Elen Nika \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker)<\/p>\n

#1. Napa, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $5.71<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"pan demin \/\/ Shutterstock (Stacker\/Stacker) How gas prices have changed in Reading in the last week Stacker compiled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129,43074],"class_list":["post-140303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-stacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140303","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=140303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}