Gas Price Near $6 in Orlando

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 13, 1:08PM EST · Published Feb 16, 11:35AM EST

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While the price nationwide for the average gallon of regular gasoline is about $1.70, there is a tiny section of Florida, just outside Orlando, where the price at one station is $5.99. The Shell Station in Lake Buena Vista sits next to a Suncoast Energys station where the price is $5.95, according to GasBuddy.

The gas price in Florida, based on the average cost of a gallon of regular, does not explain the nearly $6 price. Florida gas prices average $1.75, above the national average. Orlando prices are $1.67, just below the national average. Gas taxes and levies in Florida are $0.55 per gallon, the seventh highest in the country, and well above the national average of $0.48. By comparison, the state with the lowest gas taxes is Alaska at $0.307, based on data from the American Petroleum Institute.

For an analysis of gas taxes by state, see 24/7 Wall St.’s new study of the numbers.

The two locations in Florida are an anomaly. Most of the stations with among the highest gas prices in the United States are in and around the large cities in California, which has the highest average price among all states. In fact, 20 of the top 25 stations with highest gas prices are in California. These cities include San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego.
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The average gas price across California is $2.40, according to GasBuddy. Only Hawaii is higher at $2.62 a gallon.

Even if gas prices drop, the unique situations of the two stations outside Orlando won’t change. They sit is a small area where they can get away with gas prices near $6. They sit near several of the Disney resorts, and some of the traffic from these resorts goes to the nearby Orlando Airport.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.