{"id":156207,"date":"2026-04-03T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:25:08","slug":"gas-prices-in-philadelphia-rise-above-4-a-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156207\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices in Philadelphia rise above $4 a gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The average price of gasoline nationwide has <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/for-the-first-time-in-four-years-national-average-exceeds-4-gallon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">topped $4 a gallon for the first time in four years, according to AAA<\/a>, and prices in <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=PA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia have risen above the national average<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices continue to be impacted by America\u2019s and Israel\u2019s war with Iran, as the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed to oil shipments. The last time prices reached these levels was when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>Buying gas at the Sunoco station at 6th and Girard streets, where a gallon of regular cost $4.79 on Thursday, Ricki Glass said that it used to cost about $80 to fill up her Range Rover, but now it costs $94, adding to other rising expenses for her family of five.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s costing our family, you know, probably an extra $300 a month just to be able to live, and we have a two-parent household and it\u2019s still really hard to survive with inflation costs,\u201d Glass said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Glass blamed President Donald Trump, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/episodes\/trump-war-iran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war with Iran<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s impacting families all around the world and it\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-737200 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/04-02-2026-k-paynter-gas-prices-pain-at-the-pump.jpg\" alt=\"gas prices at a Philly gas station\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Gas prices in Philadelphia are uniformly over $4.00 on April 2, 2026. (Kimberly Paynter\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, the nationwide average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.08, but Philadelphians may pay on average between $4.10 and $4.17, with some stations charging as high as $5. Just a month ago, prices hovered around $3 per gallon nationwide. Diesel is up to $5.94 on average in Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely impacting everybody, especially those who make the bare minimum,\u201d said customer Pete Rivera. \u201cAlmost $5 gas, it\u2019s ridiculous, it\u2019s absurd.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8098,59042,69,71,70,724,5206],"class_list":{"0":"post-156207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-gas-prices","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-trump-impact","14":"tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156207","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=156207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}