{"id":379789,"date":"2026-07-20T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379789\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:02:11","slug":"houston-gas-prices-climb-as-us-average-nears-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379789\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston gas prices climb as US average nears $4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas and diesel prices rose across the U.S., including in Houston,\u00a0compared with last week, according to GasBuddy.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices in Houston rose 14.3 cents per gallon from last week, averaging $3.45 per gallon this week.<\/p>\n<p>Houston&#8217;s increase mirrors a nationwide rise in gasoline prices driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/energy\/article\/chevron-iraq-oil-deal-22346400.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">higher oil costs and market pressures<\/a>. Analysts say motorists could see additional increases if those trends continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A survey of 2,559 stations in the Houston area mfound prices were 1.6 cents lower than last month. The cheapest station in Houston\u00a0was selling gas for $2.98 per gallon on July 19, while the most expensive charged $5.05 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAverage gasoline and diesel prices rose in nearly every state for the second straight week, with the national average price of gasoline likely to reach $4 per gallon within the next 48 hours and diesel already back above $5 per gallon nationally,\u201d said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how July gas prices compare with the previous five years:<\/p>\n<p>July 2025: $2.66<br \/>July 2024: $3.04<br \/>July 2023: $3.10<br \/>July 2022: $3.97<br \/>July 2021: $2.77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas and diesel prices rose across the U.S., including in Houston,\u00a0compared with last week, according to GasBuddy. Gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-379789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379789","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=379789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}