Source: TFP Holiday travel helped push gas prices up slightly in Florida, but the average remains below the national level and down more than $1 a
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.”
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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.
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