{"id":135480,"date":"2026-10-08T05:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/10\/08\/gas-prices-drop-by-5-3-cents-during-week\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2029-03-26T05:17:07","slug":"gas-prices-drop-by-5-3-cents-during-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/10\/08\/gas-prices-drop-by-5-3-cents-during-week\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices Drop By 5.3 Cents During Week"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average gasoline prices in Montana have fallen 5.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.51\/g on Monday, Oct. 5, according to GasBuddy\u2019s survey of 615 stations in Montana. Prices in Montana are 13.0 cents per gallon higher  than a month ago and stand $1.40\/g higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has decreased 14.2 cents compared  to a week ago and stands at $6.307<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135726,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135480\/revisions\/135726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135480"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=135480"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=135480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}