Georgia gas prices will increase this week now that the state's gas tax suspension has ended

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A gas station in Atlanta displays gas prices shortly before the gas tax suspension expired.

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Georgia’s state gas tax suspension expired Tuesday night. Gas stations will now have to pay about 33 cents more per gallon of gas, and that cost will eventually be passed on to customers. 

Gov. Brian Kemp suspended the gas tax from mid-March to yesterday to offset the price of gas that’s had skyrocketed as a result of the Iran war.

Patrick De Haan is the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, an app and website that tracks gas prices. He said that drivers should expect to see prices go up about 30 cents this week.

"Some stations may raise prices incrementally every day for the next few days; some stations may try raising prices all in one fell swoop in a couple of days," he said. "But there's not going to be a lot of uniformity necessarily to how a station raises prices."

De Haan said Georgia’s average gas price will jump to about $4 a gallon, but the state will still be one of the cheaper places to buy gas. 

"They might be the 15th to the 20th most cheapest price across the country after the gas tax is restored," he said.