Labor Day gas prices surge to $4.31 per gallon in Philadelphia area

Happening now more pain at the pump and here's a look at the average cost for a gallon of regular in PA, New Jersey and Delaware. It is high and triple A says for the first time ever, the national average was above $4 every single day in august. There's something psychological about seeing that gas price under four, even if it's 3 99, it's at least it's not for something a gallon. But Sean ed, is this going to have an impact on people who want to travel for the holiday weekend coming up? It certainly will. But Jason, here's the thing. According to triple A, most people won't be traveling anyway and it has nothing to do with gas prices. But for those who will hit the road, they will feel that punch at the pump. We have bills to pay and you know, people have families. Matthew Ferro is in a mood getting gas at a station on Oregon Avenue in South Philly this evening. He's not happy about the increase in price. The fact that gas is what it is now, it's honestly ridiculous. Lucky for him, he isn't traveling for the Labor Day holiday. All the money you put out for gas, you could, you could be putting away for a nice vacation or something like that. You know, people who are planning a last unofficial summer vacation or getting away for three or four day holiday weekend will be doing so at a time when triple A says we're seeing the highest gas prices for Labor Day weekend ever. We looked at prices around Philly. We also checked out a few stations in South Jersey here today in the Philadelphia five county area. We're sitting at $4. 31 cents per gallon. That's more than a dollar per gallon more than we were today. This day last year, Janet did well with triple A says gas prices have been unstable since the conflict in Iran began last February and sort again because of recent fighting in the Middle East. It's pushed up crude oil prices even higher and 50 to 60% of gasoline is crude oil. But tidwell says higher gas prices aren't the reason many people won't travel for Labor Day. It's actually because kids are back in school and families have resumed their normal routine. Travelers have told triple A that they are willing to fill up the tank even with the $4 plus per gallon prices and they'll make adjustments in their spending in other areas. Not Keith jones. He won't be on the road this holiday weekend for 59. That's that's a little bit out of pocket with the prices. But uh it's it's it's not everywhere though as of right now. All right. So back here live people who do have plans will go by car Jason Sheba because it is the most convenient and triple A says especially for our area. It's so close to get to you know the shore, the beach, the mountains. So the moral of the story is you can play but you will pay like that. I worked on it. I like it. You know, yeah, we have to laugh to uh to stop from crying really. It's insane. You know, I even tried the other day when I was coming from the shore, Sean at passing one gas station and thinking the next gas station which is from the same company would be cheaper. No, no, didn't work out. And if you try to get gas in the in between one between regular and premium, forget about that. Yeah. Or just don't fill up all the way. Yeah, just have to have. That's exactly what I was going to say. Like the prices we're talking about today are like regular. So if it's, you know, above that, if it's premium, forget about it. But like the highest price we saw and we looked at stations in philly and then we went over to jersey. Let's see this one's 4 59. The highest we saw was 4 89 on spring garden. Yeah, that's regular a week ago and it hurt. Yeah, you should see what they are in Cali and other parts of, you know, they're more expensive. Oh yeah, brutal. All right, Sean it. Thank you very much. Happy Labor Day everybody.