The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Thursday to its highest amount since Oct. 17, 2023, increasing 5.8 cents to $5.717.<\/p>\n
The average price has risen 28 of the past 29 days, increasing $1.098, including 2.6 cents on Wednesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It rose 10 consecutive days, was unchanged March 1 and resumed rising the following day.<\/p>\n
The average price is 31 cents more than one week ago, $1.09 higher than one month ago and $1.058 greater than one year ago. It is 77.7 cents less than the record $6.494 set on Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price rose to its highest amount since Oct. 12, 2023, increasing 6.3 cents to $5.687. It has risen 50 consecutive days, increasing $1.444, including 2.6 cents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price is 32.1 cents more than one week ago, $1.126 higher than one month ago and $1.068 greater than one year ago. It is 77.2 cents less than the record $6.459 on Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
Prices were rising slightly in line with seasonal norms before the joint U.S.\/Israel attack on Iran on Feb. 28 sent oil prices higher and drastically accelerated increases at the gas pump.<\/p>\n
The national average price rose to its highest amount since Oct. 17, 2022, increasing 4.2 cents to $3.884. It has risen for 19 consecutive days, increasing 90.2 cents, including 5.2 cents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The national average price is 28.6 cents more than one week ago, 95.5 cents higher than one month ago and 78.2 cents greater than one year ago. It is $1.132 less than the record $5.016 set on June 14, 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt now looks like gasoline will hit $4\/gal next week and could head toward $4.10\/gal and beyond,\u201d Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, which provides real-time gas price information from more than 150,000 stations, wrote on social media at 3:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Thursday to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[90667,163,165,164,4937,166,2300,1929,19522,315],"class_list":["post-226945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-28th","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-average","tag-county","tag-days","tag-price","tag-rises","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}