The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Thursday to its highest amount since Oct. 9, 2023, increasing 1.4 cents to $5.958.<\/p>\n
The average price has risen 35 of the past 36 days, increasing $1.339, including 1.1 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 24.1 cents more than one week ago, $1.273 higher than one month ago and $1.299 greater than one year ago. It is 53.6 cents less than the record $6.494 set on Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price rose for the 56th consecutive day, increasing 1 cent to $5.903, its highest amount since Oct. 6, 2023. It has risen $1.66 during the streak, including six-tenths of a cent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price is 21.6 cents more than one week ago, $1.271 higher than one month ago and $1.294 greater than one year ago. It is 55.6 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 25-day streak of increases to the national average price totaling $1.001 ended with an decrease of two-tenths of a cent to $3.981. It is 9.7 cents more than one week ago, 99.8 cents higher than one month ago and 83.1 cents greater than one year ago<\/p>\n
The national average price is $1.035 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 rose Thursday to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[76330,20558,163,165,164,4937,166,50966,2612,1929,19522],"class_list":["post-237554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-76330","tag-amount","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-average","tag-county","tag-highest","tag-oct","tag-price","tag-rises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237554","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=237554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}