{"id":42237,"date":"2013-08-24T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=42237"},"modified":"2013-08-24T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:51:00","slug":"fort-wayne-has-highest-gas-price-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/08\/24\/fort-wayne-has-highest-gas-price-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Wayne has highest gas price spike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gasoline price news<\/i><\/p>\n

CHICAGO, Ill. — When gasoline prices go up in your neighborhood it\u2019s hard to imagine that anyone else has it worse. \u00a0Who\u2019s got the worst price volatility in the country? Which markets see the steepest price hikes? \u00a0Where do the gas stations and convenience stores change the prices most frequently? \u00a0GasBuddy found the answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile major markets like L.A., N.Y. and Chicago get much of the attention and criticism, they\u2019re not even in the top 20 among cities that see the steepest price hikes,\u201d says Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy.<\/p>\n

\"Gasoline<\/a>\u201cThe steep price hikes recorded in more than 25 cities in the Midwest dwarf the increases seen in the rest of the country,\u201d DeHaan said, \u201cand nowhere is it worse than Fort Wayne, Ind. \u00a0So far this year, Fort Wayne has recorded the highest single day average price hike — 34 cents per gallon — among its three highest daily changes.<\/p>\n

Fort Wayne is followed by\u00a0Indianapolis, 32 cents; Dayton, 31 cents; Columbus, 30 cents; and Toledo, 28 cents, DeHaan said, emphasizing that the figures represent the average of the three highest single-day price spikes and that Midwesterners have seen 30-cent-plus increases often enough to know they\u2019re not a statistical anomaly.<\/p>\n

On the West Coast, Bakersfield, Calif., had the largest increase in its single-day prices (taking the average of the highest three daily spikes) with a 9-cent gain. In the Rocky Mountains region, Colorado Springs led the list with an 11-cent single day spike. The Gulf Coast region\u2019s highest single-day spike was recorded in Lubbock, Texas (14 cents per gallon) while on the East Coast it was Myrtle Beach, S.C., posting an 11-cent increase to lead that region.<\/p>\n

GasBuddy examined \u2018frequency of price changes\u2019 too and found that the Midwest and West Coast regions led the way with the number of days that prices changed a penny or more per gallon. Nationwide, stations in Stockton, Calif., have posted 72 days of price changes over a penny per gallon since January 1, while Jackson, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and New Haven, Conn., have all recorded 67 increases of 1 cent or more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile small cities lead the way among markets with the steepest price spikes, we saw some larger Midwestern cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit positioned prominently among the leaders for days with one cent or more price increases (see maps for more information), and that undoubtedly fuels consumer anxiety in places where there\u2019s plenty already,\u201d said Gregg Laskoski, another senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when we look at the number of days with average price decreases of more than a penny, we see the Midwestern cities more than doubling every other region in the country,\u201d DeHaan noted, \u201cand it\u2019s the downside of that rollercoaster ride that consumers easily forget. We complain about the higher highs, but we\u2019re quiet when we benefit from the lower lows!\u201d<\/p>\n

GasBuddy is the premiere source for real-time local gas prices. Users can save at the pump and share price discoveries with fellow drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gasoline price news CHICAGO, Ill. — When gasoline prices go up in your neighborhood it\u2019s hard to imagine that anyone else has it worse. \u00a0Who\u2019s got the worst price volatility in the country? Which markets see the steepest price hikes? \u00a0Where do the gas stations and convenience stores change the prices most frequently? \u00a0GasBuddy found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:03:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}