{"id":154624,"date":"2026-04-01T19:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:55:32","slug":"how-much-does-gas-cost-in-lehigh-valley-see-latest-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154624\/","title":{"rendered":"How much does gas cost in Lehigh Valley? See latest prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

With fuel costs continuing to rise amid the Iran war, the average price of gas both nationally and in the Lehigh Valley has now topped $4.<\/p>\n

AAA\u2019s daily survey of gas prices across the U.S., updated Wednesday, shows the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $4.06 in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metro area.<\/p>\n

That was the same price as the national average, which has jumped $1.08 over the past month. Tuesday marked the first time the national average was above $4 since August 2022. But prices vary widely across the country, from an average of $3.27 in Oklahoma to $5.89 in California, a $2.62 spread.<\/p>\n

The highest average price AAA ever 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 $4.04 as of Wednesday morning. But that is an improvement over previous surveys in which 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 last several weeks. The western states remain the costliest overall.<\/p>\n

Within Pennsylvania<\/a>, prices vary from $3.91 in Clinton County, north of Centre County, to $4.14 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, including Clinton, Lycoming, Northumberland, Union and Montour. The Lehigh Valley has joined virtually all eastern Pennsylvania counties in topping the $4-per-gallon threshold. The only exceptions are Carbon and Schuylkill counties, which averaged $3.97 and $3.98, respectively, according to AAA\u2019s Wednesday report.<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s average is 4 cents cheaper than Pennsylvania\u2019s, but Warren County, the valley\u2019s closest Garden State neighbor, is 6 cents lower than Northampton County\u2019s $4.05 average, AAA says. Cape May County remains the most expensive in New Jersey at $4.16, which is a couple of pennies higher than even Philadelphia\u2019s $4.14 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 $118.31 on March 31 was the highest since June 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":"With fuel costs continuing to rise amid the Iran war, the average price of gas both nationally and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,433,182,139,434,28,432,2155],"class_list":["post-154624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154624","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=154624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154624\/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=154624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}