Florida gas prices were at their highest for a Memorial Day weekend as an estimated 2 million Floridians were projected to take a Memorial Day road trip. The state average price of $4.57 per gallon was $1.71 per gallon more than last year’s holiday and well above the previous Memorial Day high of $3.93 per gallon set in 2008.
Prices had eased off somewhat in Palm Coast and Flagler County on Tuesday, falling a few cents from highs of $4.56, $4.59 and $4.69 a gallon at various gas stations. Around midday Tuesday, regular unleaded was selling for between $4.51 and $4.54 at RaceTrac, Wawa, Circle K and 7-Eleven stations around Palm Coast. The lowest gas price in the region was at Sam’s Club on LPGA Boulevard in Daytona Beach, where it was selling for $4.22, and at Buc-ee’s , where it was selling for $4.29 a gallon.
On Tuesday, the national average set another record, at $4.622 a gallon, as the European Union concluded a two-day summit with an agreement to impose an oil embargo on Russia, the world’s third-largest oil producer. The European Union agreed to ban up to 90 percent of Russian oil imports by year’s end. The only exemption applies to a pipeline that supplies three central European nations. In 2021, almost a quarter of European Union oil imports came from Russia.
The new sanctions were not expected to further increase oil prices: they already had, sharply: oil prices rose to a two-month high of $121 a barrel on Monday, and to $123.4 a barrel today, nearly matching the year’s high and pointing to higher gas prices ahead. On Friday, the U.S. price of oil had closed at $115 per barrel. This year’s high of $123.70 was last set in March.
Florida gas prices are now 60 percent more expensive than what drivers paid this time last year. The average Floridian is now paying about $68 to fill an average 15-gallon tank. That’s $25 more for a fill up than a year ago. Yet for all the complaints about gas prices, they’re not cutting into consumer and disposable spending, which keep breaking records, though there are warning signs: consumer confidence declined slightly in May.
“Gas prices appeared to level out over the weekend, but there’s renewed upward pressure on pump prices after an active week on the oil market both last week and overnight,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA – The Auto Club Group. “Tightness in the global fuel market has kept a high floor on fuel prices. The price of oil traded higher overnight after the European Union announced a partial ban on Russian oil imports. The region, which is historically reliant on Russian oil and gas, will now have to find alternative suppliers, in what is already an extremely tight fuel market. The longer oil prices remain elevated, the longer American drivers will endure this unprecedented pain at the pump.”
Regional Prices
- Most expensive metro markets – West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($4.71), Naples ($4.61), Fort Lauderdale ($4.60)
- Least expensive metro markets – Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($4.36), Pensacola ($4.38), Panama City ($4.40)
Find Florida Gas Prices
- Daily gas price averages can be found at Gasprices.aaa.com
- State and metro averages can be found here
| AAA GAS PRICE AVERAGES (Price per gallon of regular unleaded gasoline) |
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Monday | Sunday | Week Ago | Month Ago | One Year Ago |
| National | $4.619 | $42.610 | $4.596 | $4.178 | $3.045 |
| Florida | $4.574 | $4.577 | $4.477 | $4.184 | $2.866 |
| Georgia | $4.135 | $4.134 | $4.143 | $3.717 | $2.913 |
| Click here to view current gasoline price averages | |||||
The dude says
Where are the domestic producers? Why aren’t they re-establishing wells they moth-balled when oil was less than break even (around $80/bbl). They’re reporting record income, why isn’t that trickling down in the consumers?
Could it be that the “free markets” don’t really work the way our conservative friends have always told us they worked?
Dennis C Rathsam says
Oh how I wish for the days of TRUMP!!!! Families saving money, cheap gas, no inflation, plenty of baby formula, inexpensive food, strenth at the boarder,China & Russia contained…Americans prospered, The good life was had by all! Families built a little nest egg!!! Now look whats happening to our once great economy? How many Americans suffer from buyer,s remorse? Are U better off now, or better off 4 years ago? Its so sad, too many people are suffering, WHY, where,s the leadership? Where,s the great uniter? Where,s the heart in this president? GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Shelly says
Ease off where? Gas here went from $4.59 a gallon to $4.75 a gallon.
Jay says
The Oil Cartel wants all the numbnuts who put “Biden Did This!” Stickers on the pumps to believe this is actually Biden’s fault when they are posting RECORD PROFITS and legally robbing all of us at the pumps!! There is zero accountability and our politicians get paid millions by the Oil Cartel to shut up. Time to go electric because your Senators DON’T have your best interests in mind people. Wake up already.
Greg says
Not sure where they eased off? I just paid $4.759 at the Shell station by 95, on rt100. Up about #.20 cents from yesterday.
Betty says
Root cause is the Democrat Party and Biden. They implement economy killing policies at the whim of their far left special interests, purposely leading Americans into the Biden Depression. I prepared for the Biden/Democrat catastrophe. Seniors on fixed incomes did not. Thanks to Biden seniors have to choose betwern medication to survive or food. Democrats crippled their ability to buy both.
Sherry says
Not to confuse the “mindless” trump/FOX cult with actual facts. . . because of course absolutely EVERYTHING BAD is President Biden’s fault. . . BIG OIL’S MASSIVE PROFITS is largely to blame for the rise in gas prices!
This from the Business Insider:
Several of the world’s largest oil companies reported first-quarter earnings in recent weeks, giving investors new detail as to how sky-high gas prices are bolstering firms’ bottom lines. Performance, in a word, was stellar. ExxonMobil reported a net profit of $5.5 billion, more than doubling its earnings from the year-ago period. Shell notched its strongest quarterly profit ever, and Chevron posted its best earnings quarter in nearly a decade.
A new analysis from the Center for American Progress examined five major oil companies — Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips — as gas prices soar.