The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Thursday for the seventh consecutive day after a 44-day streak of increases totaling 79.7 cents that brought it within 5.4 cents of its record.<\/p>\n
The average price dropped 1.4 cents to $6.381 Thursday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It has dropped 5.8 cents over the past seven days, including 1.1 cents Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The average price is 46.9 cents more than one month ago and $1.653 higher than one year ago, It has increased $1.687 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 dropped for the seventh consecutive day after a run of 42 increases 44 days totaling 83.7 cents pushed it within 5.3 cents of its record. It dropped 1.2 cents Thursday to $6.323.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price has decreased 8.2 cents over the past seven days, including 2 cents Wednesday. It is 43.2 cents more than one month ago and $1.618 higher than one year ago.<\/p>\n
The Orange County average price has increased $1.687 since the start of the war on Iran. Its record average price is $6.458 set Oct. 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The dropping prices are the result of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s announcement last week that cheaper winter-blend gasoline would be allowed to be sold immediately instead of on the customary Nov. 1 date.<\/p>\n
The national average price dropped for the 12th time in 13 days, decreasing a half-cent to $4.361. It dropped 10 consecutive days, rose three-tenths of a cent Tuesday and resumed decreasing Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The national average price is 5.2 cents less than one week ago, but 21 cents more than one month ago and $1.246 higher than one year ago. It has increased $1.379 since the attack on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Thursday for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,78010,166,171,234,6862],"class_list":["post-489368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-consecutive","tag-county","tag-orange","tag-prices","tag-seventh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489368","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=489368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}