The 44-day streak of increases totaling 79.7 cents that brought the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County 5.4 cents from matching its record ended Friday with a decrease of seven-tenths of a cent.<\/p>\n
The average price of $6.432 is 9.6 cents more than one week ago, 64.8 cents higher than one month ago and $1.709 greater than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.<\/p>\n
The average price has increased $1.738 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 run of 42 increases 44 days totaling 83.7 cents that brought the Orange County average price within 5.3 cents of matching its record ended with a drop of six-tenths of a cent to $6.399. It is 7.6 cents more than one week ago, 62.8 cents higher than one month ago and $1.707 greater than one year ago.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price has increased $1.77 since the start of the war on Iran. It increased 42 consecutive days, was unchanged Wednesday when it was unchanged and rose a half-cent Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Orange County record average price is $6.458 set Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cOil Price Information Service reports that California wholesale gasoline prices dropped by 20 cents yesterday after Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s announcement late Monday that the cheaper winter-blend gasoline will be allowed to be sold immediately in California gas stations,\u201d Kandace Redd, the Automobile Club of Southern California\u2019s senior public affairs specialist, said in a statement released Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect pump prices to begin falling soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The national average price dropped for the seventh consecutive day, decreasing 1.7 cents to $4.396. It has dropped 9.5 cents over the past seven days, including 2.1 cents Thursday. The decreases follow back-to-back increases totaling 1.7 cents.<\/p>\n
The national average price is 27.6 cents more than one month ago and $1.237 higher than one year ago. It has increased $1.414 since the attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County average price rose more than 1.3 cents per day over the past week, the Orange County average price rose more than 1 cent per day over the past week while the national average price dropped more than 1.3 cents 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 44-day streak of increases totaling 79.7 cents that brought the average price of a gallon of self-serve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[189337,163,165,164,4937,166,31317,234,31318,30246],"class_list":["post-483499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-44-day","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-average","tag-county","tag-ends","tag-prices","tag-rising","tag-streak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483499","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=483499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}