Jesse Scheckner
Drivers in Florida are paying the lowest pump prices they’ve seen in seven months, according to AAA — The Auto Club Group.
The state average for gasoline dropped to $3.22 cents per gallon Monday — the cheapest cost of car and motorcycle fuel since early March.
That’s due in large part to a steady decline in price per gallon over the past 35 days, during which the state average fell by 47 cents.
AAA spokesperson Mark Jenkins attributed the wallet-friendly shift to a combination of factors.
“Gas prices are still falling on the momentum created by the seasonal downturn in fuel demand, coupled with stronger gasoline supplies and the switch to cheaper winter blend gasoline,” he said in a statement. “However, this downturn momentum may not continue, now that oil and gasoline futures prices logged a second consecutive week of gains.”
The U.S. price of oil increased by 1% last week as international concerns persisted about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Over the past two weeks, the price grew $6 per barrel (7%). Gasoline futures also increased 20 cents per gallon during the same period.
The most expensive place in Florida to refuel is the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton area, where motorists are shelling out $3.45 per gallon on average, followed by Naples ($3.40) and Tallahassee ($3.39).
Drivers and motorcyclists are getting the best deals in Pensacola and Orlando, where the average price is $3.12, followed by the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area, where it costs a cent more.
Nationally, the Sunshine State is among the states where gas is the cheapest, and all those states are in the South from Texas to South Carolina and from Florida to Kentucky.
Gas is least expensive in Georgia, at $3.01 per gallon. It’s priciest in California, at $5.44 per gallon.
12 comments
Charger John
October 23, 2023 at 9:50 am
Enjoy the Fall grasshoppers. The Ants have dumped the petrol dollar and the harsh winter is coming. The USA is blessed with a thousand years of mineral and energy wealth. We are at war and the enemy has control of these resources. Cheap and abundant energy is the key to a healthy economy and fuels prosperity to all Americans. Any political party or actors supporting the climate agenda is the enemy! All the enemy knows is spreading misery and destruction.
Michael K
October 23, 2023 at 10:50 am
Yes, there is nothing like abundant renewable clean energy – wind, solar, and thermal that reduces carbon emissions. Florida could be the US leader in solar power if not for the Republican legislators bought and sold by the fossil fuel industry.
Try living next to a refinery – it might change your worldview.
Joe
October 23, 2023 at 11:35 am
John should turn off Fox News and try reading a newspaper now and then. You and your GQP buddies are among the most insulated and least educated voters in American history, as demonstrated by your incoherent ramblings here.
Joe
October 23, 2023 at 11:36 am
John should turn off Fox News and try reading a newspaper now and then. You and your fellow right-wing lackeys are among the most insulated and least educated voters in American history, as demonstrated by your incoherent ramblings here.
rick whitaker
October 23, 2023 at 10:03 am
why is biden nomics working. it isn’t gas prices go up and down based on many things. the maga cult take credit when it goes down and blames dems when it goes up. how dishonest.
Charger John
October 23, 2023 at 10:34 am
Rick, are you a paid troll? You should get another booster as you seem to not be grasping reality? I will pray for you Rick. Somewhere somehow you got on the wrong train.
Joe
October 23, 2023 at 11:33 am
Charger John should turn off Fox News and OAN and try reading a newspaper now and then. You and your GQP buddies are among the most insulated and least educated political cohort in American history — and that’s how your right-wing paymasters like it!
rick whitaker
October 23, 2023 at 9:05 pm
listen here , don’t mention praying and my name together. i am a realist and i don’t believe anything christians do or say. you apparently are a maga cultist and you believe all the lies in the maga cult world. we live in different realities. keep your lame comment to yourself.. i don’t talk to cultists like you. talk to earl shitts or some other idiot, not me.
Michael K
October 23, 2023 at 10:55 am
Thank you, President Biden!
If you are going to blame him for price increases then he also deserves credit when prices drop. Truth is, energy is a global commodity, and the markets control pricing.
Joe
October 23, 2023 at 11:32 am
I saw gas under $3 this week in my home state. So much for the right-wing media’s incessant lies about the “terrible” economy (not that Biden can do much about gas prices anyway). And some inflation is a small price to pay for a resilient economy in time of war.
Charger John
October 23, 2023 at 1:13 pm
Mike,
Solar for home or business roof tops at owners expense is a personal choice. I own 80 panels that I paid for. I will never get my investment back but I knew this going in. Public utilities doing solar are simply mal-investment. Solar on a big scale cannot ever compete with gas fired plants that can be on-line in minutes and produce efficiently during bad weather. You have to have stand by online when a massive solar farm has a cloud go over. If you think Carbon is bad and CO2 is harmful the lack of physics training is apparent. Stop drinking the kool-aid. Ignorant people who vote have destroyed this country.
rick whitaker
October 24, 2023 at 9:14 am
it’s not ALL about getting investments back and competition. those are maga cult interests, it’s about doing the right thing. money freaks don’t get it. the future is about change and innovation, not the same old same old just because of your bottom line in a particular quarter. you seem to be myopic.
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