The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County was 5.4 cents from matching its record Thursday following an increase of 1.1 cents to $6.439, its highest amount since Oct. 7, 2022.<\/p>\n
The average price has risen 44 consecutive days, increasing 79.7 cents, including six-tenths of a cent Wednesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 15.7 cents more than one week ago, 68.5 cents higher than one month ago and $1.716 greater than one year ago.<\/p>\n
The average price has increased $1.745 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 record average price is $6.493 set Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price moved within 5.3 cents of matching its record following an increase of a half-cent to $6.405, its highest amount since Oct. 6, 2022. Its 42-day streak of increases totaling 83.2 cents ended Wednesday when it was unchanged.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price is 14 cents more than one week ago, 66.7 cents higher than one month ago and $1.709 greater than one year ago. It has increased $1.776 since the start of the war on Iran.<\/p>\n
The Orange County record average price is $6.458 set Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The national average price dropped for the sixth consecutive day, decreasing 2.1 cents to $4.413. It has dropped 7.8 cents over the past six days, including 2.1 cents Wednesday. The decreases follow back-to-back increases totaling 1.7 cents.<\/p>\n
The national average price is 6.9 cents less than one week ago but 31.8 cents more than one month ago and $1.253 higher than one year ago. It has increased $1.431 since the attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County average price rose more than 2.2 cents per day over the past week, the Orange County average price rose 2 cents per day over the past week while the national average price dropped nearly 1 cent per day.<\/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 was 5.4 cents from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,4937,105146,166,187258,1929,5681],"class_list":["post-481956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-average","tag-cents","tag-county","tag-matching","tag-price","tag-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481956","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=481956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}