{"id":200121,"date":"2026-03-11T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200121\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:41:06","slug":"texas-gas-prices-are-rising-amid-iran-war-but-were-still-paying-less-than-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200121\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas gas prices are rising amid Iran war, but we\u2019re still paying less than other states"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Texas Newsroom:<\/a><\/p>\n

Gas prices in Texas are\u00a0climbing<\/a>\u00a0as crude oil prices spike amid tensions in the Middle East, though drivers across the state are still paying less than the national average.<\/p>\n

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in Texas stood at about $3.25 as of Wednesday, according to\u00a0data from AAA<\/a>. That\u2019s up from last month, when prices hovered around $2.55 per gallon throughout the state.<\/p>\n

The main reason: a spike in crude oil prices \u2014 the main ingredient in gasoline \u2014 fueled in part by\u00a0the escalating conflict in the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at the bigger picture over the past week or two, you see an increase in crude oil prices, and that\u2019s after the U.S. intervention in Iran,\u201d said Daniel Armbruster, a spokesperson for AAA Texas.<\/p>\n

Armbruster said oil prices have been fluctuating after the\u00a0U.S. and Israel launched strikes on targets in Iran<\/a>\u00a0on Feb. 28. The\u00a0ongoing conflict<\/a>\u00a0has raised concerns over whether it\u2019ll disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that carries roughly a fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply. Those fears pushed crude prices higher, though they\u2019ve eased slightly in recent days, Armbruster said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fluid situation overseas,\u201d he said, \u201cso how that plays out in the coming weeks is going to be really important as to how long we see elevated gas prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armbruster added that it\u2019s difficult to predict whether prices will continue rising in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n

Oil prices had been slowly climbing since December but spiked in late February following the strikes. As of Wednesday,\u00a0West Texas Intermediate crude<\/a>\u00a0was trading at more than $86 per barrel, up from about $58 in October.<\/p>\n

Even with the increase, Texas drivers continue to benefit from relatively lower prices compared with the rest of the country. As of Wednesday,\u00a0the national average<\/a>\u00a0sat at $3.58 per gallon.<\/p>\n

This is the usual trend in Texas, according to Armbruster, who said the Lone Star State is typically among the states with the cheapest gas prices, partly because its proximity to Gulf Coast oil and refining keeps transportation costs lower.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, Texas ranked 17th among states with the lowest average gas prices, according to Armbruster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From The Texas Newsroom: Gas prices in Texas are\u00a0climbing\u00a0as crude oil prices spike amid tensions in the Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-200121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200121","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=200121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}