{"id":153578,"date":"2026-03-31T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:16:08","slug":"how-much-is-gas-in-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153578\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is gas in the Lehigh Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AAA\u2019s daily survey of gas prices across the U.S. shows that the price of a gallon of regular is now $4.02, a jump of $1.04 over the past month. It is the first time the national average has been above $4 since August 2022. But prices vary widely across the county, from $3.27 in Oklahoma to $5.89 in California, a $2.62 spread.<\/p>\n

The average price for a gallon of gas remains just below $4 in the Lehigh Valley, at $3.98.<\/p>\n

The highest price AAA reported was $5.02 on June 14, 2022. That same week Pennsylvania reached its highest average of $5.07.<\/p>\n

The map below shows prices in every state and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania comes in as the 14th most expensive place to buy gas, with a statewide average of $3.98 as of Tuesday morning. But that is an improvement over previous surveys where the state often ranked ninth or 10th, with Florida as the only East Coast state that was more expensive. The latest numbers show that the District of Columbia and Maryland have joined Florida in topping Pennsylvania\u2019s average.<\/p>\n

Mississippi used to be the perennially cheapest place to buy gas, but it has been supplanted by Oklahoma over the past several weeks. The western states remain the costliest overall.<\/p>\n

Within Pennsylvania<\/a>, prices vary from $3.84 in Clinton County, north of Centre County, to $4.04 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The Lehigh Valley used to be one of the cheapest places to fill your tank in Pennsylvania, but it has ceded that distinction to a cluster of north-central counties adjacent to Clinton, including Lycoming, Northumberland, Union and Montour. While the Lehigh Valley is just shy of the $4 mark, all the counties near the banks of the Delaware to the valley\u2019s north and south are above the $4 per gallon threshold, including Pike, Monroe and Bucks.<\/p>\n

At $3.93 per gallon, Carbon County is a relative haven for less expensive gas in the region.<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s average is a nickel cheaper than Pennsylvania\u2019s, but Warren County, the valley\u2019s closest Garden State neighbor, is 10 cents lower than Northampton County\u2019s $3.98 average, according to the automobile association\u2019s Tuesday numbers. Cape May County remains the most expensive in New Jersey at $4.09, which is 5 cents higher than even Philadelphia\u2019s average.<\/p>\n

Crude prices<\/p>\n

The price of gas is mostly dependent on the price of crude oil. Business Insider tracks the closing price of Brent crude, the North Sea oil that represents the majority of international petroleum trade. The chart below shows the daily closing price since January of last year.<\/p>\n

The price per barrel has gone up 50.61% over the last 15 months, and the closing price of $108.65 on March 16 was the highest since June 27, 2022.<\/p>\n

The Energy Information Administration\u2019s analysis<\/a> predicts that the price of crude will remain above $95 per barrel for the next two months. The government analysis notes, \u201cthis price forecast is highly dependent on our modeled assumptions of both the duration of conflict in the Middle East and resulting outages in oil production.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AAA\u2019s daily survey of gas prices across the U.S. shows that the price of a gallon of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432,2155],"class_list":["post-153578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153578","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=153578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}