The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County shot up another 7.2 cents Sunday to $5.87, as the war in Iran continued to hammer American pocketbooks.<\/p>\n
The average price has risen 31 of the past 32 days and is the highest it\u2019s been since Oct. 12, 2023. It is 27.3 cents more than one week ago, $1.215 more than one month ago and $1.219 more than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 62.4 cents less than the record $6.494 set on Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price rose 7.3 cents to $5.841, its highest amount since Oct. 8, 2023. It has risen 53 consecutive days, increasing $1.598. The Orange County average price is 28.3 cents more than one week ago, $1.242 more than one month ago and $1.234 more than one year ago. It is 61.8 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 1.7 cents to $3.942, its highest amount since Aug. 17, 2022. It has risen for 22 consecutive days, increasing 96 cents. The national average price is 24.3 cents more than one week ago, $1.008 more than one month ago and 81.5 cents more than one year ago. It is $1.074 less than the record $5.016 set on June 14, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County shot up another 7.2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,105146,166,49065,171,234,47379],"class_list":["post-231746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-cents","tag-county","tag-gallon","tag-orange","tag-prices","tag-shoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231746","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=231746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}