{"id":227172,"date":"2026-03-30T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227172\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:41:06","slug":"us-gas-prices-near-4-texas-drivers-are-pay-3-61-a-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227172\/","title":{"rendered":"US gas prices near $4; Texas drivers are pay $3.61 a gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas drivers are starting the workweek with gas prices up slightly Monday to an average of $3.61 a gallon, with some counties in Big Bend Country already paying over $4, according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=TX\">AAA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Fort Worth and Arlington, regular gasoline is holding around $3.59 per gallon, down from $3.69 a week earlier. Regular gas is nearly $1 more expensive than one month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers who require premium-grade gasoline are paying an average of $4.45 per gallon in Fort Worth. Diesel fuel is nearing $5 \u2014 as of Monday, average prices were $4.96, up from $4.94 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, gas is averaging $3.99 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/256385492\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774888866_819_matt photo 2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Matt Leclercq\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/256385492\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Leclercq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Matt Leclercq is senior managing editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He previously was an editor at USA Today in Washington, national news editor at Gatehouse Media in Austin, and executive editor of The Fayetteville (NC) Observer. He\u2019s a New Orleans native.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas drivers are starting the workweek with gas prices up slightly Monday to an average of $3.61 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[87923,87924,116,118,117,87922],"class_list":{"0":"post-227172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-aaa-gas-prices","9":"tag-diesel-price","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-texas-gas-prices-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172","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=227172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}