{"id":349717,"date":"2026-06-06T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349717\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:29:13","slug":"average-la-county-gas-price-drops-for-18th-time-in-19-days-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349717\/","title":{"rendered":"Average LA County Gas Price Drops for 18th Time in 19 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Saturday for the 18th time in 19 days, decreasing 3.6 cents to $5.926, its lowest amount since April 22.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has fallen 28.8 cents over the past 19 days, including 3.5 cents Friday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 15.4 cents less than one week ago and 31.5 cents lower than one month ago, but $1.222 more than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County average price dropped for the 23rd time in 24 days, decreasing 4.4 cents to $5.808, its lowest amount since April 23. It has dropped 38.4 cents over the past 24 days, including 3.9 cents Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County average price is 18.7 cents less than one week ago and 40.9 cents lower than one month ago, but $1.19 more than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil prices continue trading below $100 a barrel, which has helped push down gas prices locally and nationwide,\u201d Kandace Redd, the Automobile Club of Southern California\u2019s senior public affairs specialist, said in a statement released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, gas prices are likely to remain volatile and well above last year\u2019s levels as long as the Middle East conflict remains unresolved,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The national average price dropped for the 16th consecutive day, falling 2.9 cents to $4.191, its lowest amount since April 28. It has dropped 37.3 cents over the past 16 days, including 2.1 cents Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The national average price is 16.5 cents less than one week ago and 34.5 cents lower than one month ago, but $1.05 more than one year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Saturday for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[53696,163,165,164,4937,166,2300,4938,1929,315],"class_list":["post-349717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-18th","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-average","tag-county","tag-days","tag-drops","tag-price","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349717","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=349717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349717\/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=349717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}