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Gas Prices Skyrocket Due To Iran Conflict, AAA Says
March 9, 2026
Florida gas prices skyrocketed in response to the conflict in Iran. The state average surged 57 cents per gallon last week, and Sunday’s average of $3.45 is the most expensive daily average since August 2024.
Compared to recent benchmarks, Sunday’s state average is: 56 cents more than a week ago, 59 cents more than a month ago, and 35 cents more than this time last year.
On Sunday, the average price per gallon was $3.12 in Escambia County. That is up 39 cents from $2.73 a week ago, 45 cents from a month ago, and 31 cents from one year ago. In North Escambia, a low of $3.09 could be found Sunday night at stations on Highway 29 in Cantonment.
“Prices at the pump moved up quickly early last week as oil prices rallied,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA – The Auto Club Group. “With oil taking another large step higher on Friday, motorists should prepare for another round of increases in the days ahead as retailers and suppliers adjust to those higher costs.”
Crude oil prices soared 36 percent last week, marking the largest weekly increase in twenty years. Friday’s closing price hit $90.90 per barrel, nearly $24 higher than the previous week and the highest since September 2023. Gasoline futures rose sharply as well, climbing 67 cents per gallon.
These increases pushed gas prices higher early in the week and will likely continue influencing pump prices in the days ahead, according to AAA.
“Oil is the biggest input cost in gasoline, so when crude and gasoline futures climb, retail prices usually follow,” Jenkins said. “U.S. supplies remain steady, refineries are operating, and there is no indication of a shortage for drivers. The higher pump prices reflect increased fuel costs, not disruptions to U.S. availability.”
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7 Responses to “Gas Prices Skyrocket Due To Iran Conflict, AAA Says”
REGARDING:
“We’re winning!!!”
In the short run, America can usually win. President George Herbert Walker Bush had enough sense to leave shortly after defeating Iraq while we still looked invincible. However, this DID inspire Osama bin Laden to attack and kill thousands of Americans later. The current administration keeps redefining it’s goals such that actual victory is hard to define unless your goal is to spend lots of money and gets lots of people killed (including ours and us, not just little foreign school girls or government officials).
Pyrrhic victory:
a victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.
The phrase references a statement attributed to Pyrrhus of Epirus. After his victory against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC, Plutarch reports that Pyrrhus exclaimed “One more victory over the Romans and we are completely done for!”
Donald The First is winning because he has admitted he doesn’t care about those unimportant things or Constitutional requirements.
We’re winning!!!
Why is the price hike so much? Believe the gas stations have a lot to do with this. The stations do pay in advance basically like the airlines do. Thought the US was drilling, why don’t we receive benefits from that? Or is it because we haven’t replaced what Biden took out of the reserves?
@ tomcat
Not collecting the tariffs and NO OIL FROM
VENEZUELA!!!
Keep an eye on the prize
Gas prices skyrocketed because the owners of the stations saw an opportunity. The fuel that was already in their tanks had been paid for. These guys double dipped and we got taken. I know this, because I used to be one of the owners that paid in advance for fuel when it was delivered. So, it’s not entirely the war to blame.
Why? If we getting all these monies from the tariffs and all this oil/petroleum from Venezuela, then why? How come the American people havent seen any benefit from either?