{"id":112299,"date":"2026-01-06T03:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:52:18","slug":"2026-predicted-to-be-cheapest-for-gas-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112299\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 predicted to be cheapest for gas in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) \u2013 Drivers have at least one reason to be happy in the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">GasBuddy predicts the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline will be $2.97 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That would be the first year below $3 since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It would also mark four straight years of falling prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">GasBuddy is making the prediction despite ongoing uncertainty in oil-rich Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) \u2013 Drivers have at least one reason to be happy in the new year. GasBuddy predicts the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49770,14265,49772,497,168,170,169,49771,14103,21013,23159],"class_list":{"0":"post-112299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-average","9":"tag-fuel","10":"tag-gallon","11":"tag-gas","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-per","16":"tag-price","17":"tag-prices","18":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}