SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Gas prices have been on the rise across the country, including in San Antonio, and an expert warns you shouldn\u2019t hold your breath waiting for a big drop.<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday morning, the average price for a gallon of gas in the San Antonio metro area was $3.96, according to data from Gas Buddy. That\u2019s just a little under the pre-tax price of two bean and cheese tacos. <\/p>\n
Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at Gas Buddy, told KSAT the U.S. war with Iran has helped drive the price of gas over the past year \u2014 up about $1.16 in San Antonio \u2014 while Ukraine\u2019s strikes on Russian oil refineries<\/a> have contributed to diesel prices soaring even more significantly<\/a>. <\/p>\n The price in San Antonio was down from roughly $3.98 Monday, but De Haan warned that\u2019s likely due to the typical price cycle where prices go up, then drift down as gas stations try to compete with each other before bouncing up again either later this week or early next week. <\/p>\n \u201cOutside of these weekly dips, gas prices probably will still remain overall elevated until there is drastic improvement in either\/or geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran and Ukraine and Russia,\u201d De Haan warned.<\/p>\n He doesn\u2019t expect prices to get \u201cdrastically cheaper\u201d in the coming months unless there\u2019s a \u201cmajor de-escalation\u201d in either conflict, which could bring lower prices \u201cvery quickly\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut obviously this has been very much a roller coaster ride,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard talk of a deal, then a deal is off, then talk of the deal. And that creates a bit of a roller coaster effect. So watch the markets, but overall gas prices and diesel prices aren\u2019t going to meaningfully be lower until there\u2019s meaningful de-escalation that\u2019s longer lasting.\u201d<\/p>\n And while this is around the time that the switch to the cheaper, winter fuel blend might push down prices, De Haan says \u201calmost no one\u201d is seeing that.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s because so many escalations have happened in the last two weeks that oil prices and rising prices for gasoline have essentially offset that seasonal relief,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The San Antonio area\u2019s average price is about level with the rest of the state, but 50 cents lower than the national average. <\/p>\n The local average isn\u2019t near the record high of $4.68 either, which was set in June 2022. It\u2019s also under the $4.15 average from early May this year.<\/p>\n With that spring high driven by seasonal reasons like an increase in demand and the switch to the more expensive summer blend, De Haan doesn\u2019t expect prices to go above that, but anything\u2019s possible. <\/p>\n \u201cIf there are enough escalations, we still could knock that out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Read also:<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Gas prices have been on the rise across the country, including in San Antonio, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2067,56556,497,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-444636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-affordability","tag-affording-san-antonio","tag-gas","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\/444636","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=444636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}