The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped three-tenths of a cent Thursday to $5.654, one day after an eight-day streak of decreases totaling 5.9 cents ended with an increase of two-tenths of a cent.<\/p>\n
The average price is 2.6 cents less than one week ago but 24.3 cents more than one month ago and $1.188 higher than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.<\/p>\n
The average price has increased 96 cents since the start of the joint U.S.\/Israel attack on Iran on Feb. 28, which sent oil prices higher and drastically accelerated increases at the gas pump.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price dropped two-tenths of a cent to $5.595, its ninth decrease in 10 days. It dropped six consecutive days, rose two-tenths of a cent Monday and resumed dropping Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price has dropped 7.3 cents over the past nine days, including one-tenth of a cent Wednesday, and is 3 cents less than one week ago but 29.8 cents more than one month ago and $1.169 higher than one year ago.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price has increased 95.9 cents since the start of the attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
The national average price rose 3.5 cents to $4.071, its third consecutive increase following a 10-day streak of decreases totaling 9.7 cents. It has risen 6.2 cents over the past three days, including 2.5 cents Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The national average price is eight-tenths of a cent more than one week ago, 19.9 cents higher than one month ago and 91.6 cents greater than it was one year ago. It has increased $1.089 since the attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
The national average price is at its highest amount this late in the calendar year after never topping $4 on Aug. 13 in any previous year, according to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, which provides real-time gas price information from more than 150,000 stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped three-tenths of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,4937,10800,166,44627,171,234],"class_list":["post-432010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-average","tag-change","tag-county","tag-little","tag-orange","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432010","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=432010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432010\/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=432010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}