The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose for the 40th consecutive day Sunday, increasing 1.3 cents to $6.40 \u2014 its highest amount since Oct. 10, 2022 and just 9.3 cents from its record high of $6.493 set Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The average price has increased 75.8 cents over the past 40 days, including 5.1 cents Saturday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 19.8 cents more than one week ago, 69.5 cents more than one month ago and $1.675 more than one year ago.<\/p>\n
The average price has increased $1.706 since the start of the joint U.S.\/Israel war 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 also rose for the 40th straight day, increasing 1.6 cents to $6.385 \u2014 its highest amount since Oct. 7, 2022 and 7.3 cents from its record high of $6.458 set Oct. 5, 2022. It has increased 81 cents in the last 40 days, including 4.6 cents Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price is 20.5 cents more than one week ago, 73.2 cents more than one month ago and $1.688 more than one year ago. It has increased $1.749 since the start of the war on Iran.<\/p>\n
The national average price declined eight-tenths of a cent to $4.479. It is three-tenths of a cent more than one week ago, 38 cents more than one month ago and $1.342 more than one year ago. It has increased $1.497 since the attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
The national average price is at its highest amount this late in the calendar 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 rose for the 40th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[161626,163,165,164,166,29625,187951,171,234],"class_list":["post-479169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-all-time","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-county","tag-highs","tag-inching","tag-orange","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479169","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=479169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}