{"id":85232,"date":"2026-01-13T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:56:12","slug":"how-gas-prices-have-changed-in-scranton-in-the-last-week-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85232\/","title":{"rendered":"How gas prices have changed in Scranton in the last week \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CheapInsurance.com<\/a> compiled statistics on gas prices in Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA metro area using data from AAA<\/a>. Gas prices are current as of January 12.<\/p>\n

Scranton by the numbers
– Gas current price: $2.98
— Pennsylvania average: $3.02
– Week change: -$0.02 (-0.7%)
– Year change: -$0.23 (-7.2%)
– Historical expensive gas price: $5.17 (6\/14\/22)<\/p>\n

– Diesel current price: $3.97
– Week change: -$0.03 (-0.7%)
– Year change: -$0.03 (-0.8%)
– Historical expensive diesel price: $6.62 (5\/18\/22)<\/p>\n

Metros with the least expensive gas
#1. Lawton, OK: $2.09
#2. Oklahoma City, OK: $2.09
#3. Springfield, MO: $2.17<\/p>\n

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

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Istvan Csak \/\/ Shutterstock#5. statewide, HI<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $4.40<\/p>\n

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Elen Nika \/\/ Shutterstock#4. San Diego, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $4.41<\/p>\n

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Christian Mueller \/\/ Shutterstock#3. San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $4.43<\/p>\n

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jittawit21 \/\/ Shutterstock#2. Hilo, HI<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $4.63<\/p>\n

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Rangsarit Chaiyakun \/\/ Shutterstock#1. Lihue (Kauai), HI<\/p>\n

– Regular gas price: $4.95<\/p>\n

This story<\/a> was produced by CheapInsurance.com<\/a> and reviewed and distributed by Stacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CheapInsurance.com compiled statistics on gas prices in Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA metro area using data from AAA. Gas prices are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-85232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85232","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=85232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}