{"id":380037,"date":"2026-07-20T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380037\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:47:08","slug":"gas-prices-climb-above-3-50-in-austin-and-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380037\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices climb above $3.50 in Austin and San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gas prices jumped back above $3.50 a gallon on average Monday in Austin and San Antonio as the U.S. and\u00a0Iran launched more attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Drivers in Austin are paying an average of $3.53<\/a>, up 11 cents from a week ago and 75 cents from the $2.78 that was the average a year ago. In San Antonio, drivers are paying a bit more, $3.56 on average for a gallon of regular gasoline. A week ago, they were paying less than Austin drivers, $3.41; a year ago, they were paying an average of $2.75.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Across the state, drivers are paying an average of $3.57, up from $2.76 a year ago. Nationally, drivers are paying 86 cents more on average than they were a year ago, when the average price was $3.14 a gallon.<\/p>\n

With the national average at $4, that means drivers in some states have been paying well over $4 a gallon for a while now, while others pay less. Prices vary between states due to factors ranging from nearby supply to differing tax rates.<\/p>\n

Affordability is likely to be a key issue for voters in the U.S. midterm elections, and higher gas and oil prices can help push up prices for groceries and other goods.<\/p>\n

California had the highest average price<\/a> for a gallon of regular gasoline Monday: $5.50, nearly $2 more than what Texans are paying. Indiana had the lowest average: $3.35. Mississippi is the only other state with an average cheaper than Texas\u00a0\u2014 by a tenth of a penny.<\/p>\n

People around the world also are dealing with high gas prices as a result of the war.<\/p>\n

Brent crude, the international standard, fell slightly by Monday morning trading in the U.S.\u00a0\u2014 down $1.64 to $86.46 per barrel. But that\u2019s still much higher than prewar levels, when crude was going for close to $70 a barrel. Meanwhile, benchmark U.S. crude dropped $1.87 to $79.91 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices jumped back above $3.50 a gallon on average Monday in Austin and San Antonio as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,933],"class_list":["post-380037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austinlatest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380037","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=380037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}