- April 19, 2024
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Aleksei - stock.adobe.com
Holiday travel helped push gas prices up slightly in Florida, but the average remains below the national level and down more than $1 a gallon from a year ago.
The AAA auto club said the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Florida was $3.41 on Tuesday.
That was 2 cents higher than a week earlier. AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins said prices likely will continue to fluctuate through the summer.
But Jenkins added that outside of an event such as a hurricane affecting refinery operations in the Gulf of Mexico, “we may have already seen the highest prices of this year.”
The state’s highest average prices were in the West Palm Beach, Naples and Miami-Dade regions, while the lowest prices were in the Panhandle.
AAA anticipated that Memorial Day holiday travel would be 6 percent higher than last year.
“The rise in demand for gasoline is helping to push pump prices higher for now,” AAA spokesman Andrew Gross said in a statement. “But the increase is mitigated by the low cost of oil, which is wobbling around in the low $70s per barrel.
Pump prices could stabilize or fall once this long weekend is in the rearview mirror.” Florida motorists paid an average of $4.57 a gallon a year ago.
