SAN ANTONIO – Texas drivers are seeing another jump at the pump, with gas prices climbing across the state as tensions in Iran continue to put pressure on global oil markets.<\/p>\n
In San Antonio, the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline rose 12.6 cents over the past week to $3.67, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of 886 stations. That’s nearly 58 cents higher than a month ago and $1.11 more than drivers were paying at this time last year.<\/p>\n
The increase isn’t limited to San Antonio. Gas prices also climbed across several major Texas cities over the past week:<\/p>\n
Austin: $3.68 per gallon, up 18 centsCorpus Christi: $3.66 per gallon, up 16.9 centsLaredo: $3.63 per gallon, up 9.4 cents<\/p>\n
Drivers can still find significant price differences depending on where they fill up. The cheapest station in San Antonio was selling gas for $3.33 per gallon Sunday, while the highest-priced station was at $5.44, a gap of $2.11 per gallon. Across Texas, prices ranged from as low as $2.99 to as high as $5.44 per gallon.<\/p>\n
Nationally, the average price of gasoline increased 10.8 cents over the past week to $4.06 per gallon. Diesel prices also continued to rise, with the national average climbing 17.8 cents to $5.26 per gallon.<\/p>\n
According to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, several international conflicts have helped drive fuel prices higher in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Continued tensions between the United States and Iran, renewed Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries have all contributed to higher crude oil and fuel prices, he said.<\/p>\n
There may be some relief ahead, however.<\/p>\n
De Haan said easing tensions over the weekend caused oil prices to fall when markets reopened Sunday, which could slow the pace of increases at gas stations in the coming days.<\/p>\n
“Motorists should expect prices to remain elevated, but the intensity of further gains will depend heavily on how the geopolitical situation develops in the coming week,” De Haan said.<\/p>\n
Even with the recent increases, San Antonio’s average remains below the national average of $4.06 per gallon, though prices have risen sharply compared with last summer, when drivers were paying just $2.57 per gallon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Texas drivers are seeing another jump at the pump, with gas prices climbing across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-387856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387856","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=387856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}