{"id":104741,"date":"2021-10-25T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=104741"},"modified":"2021-10-25T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:00:28","slug":"average-l-a-county-gas-price-rises-for-14th-consecutive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/10\/25\/average-l-a-county-gas-price-rises-for-14th-consecutive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Average L.A. County gas price rises for 14th consecutive day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fuel-nozzle-on-gas-station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104742\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fuel-nozzle-on-gas-station.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"918\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fuel-nozzle-on-gas-station.jpg 918w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fuel-nozzle-on-gas-station-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/fuel-nozzle-on-gas-station-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Monday for the 14th consecutive day, increasing four-tenths of a cent to $4.558, its highest amount since Oct. 19, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has increased 12.1 cents over the past 14 days, including seven-tenths of a cent Sunday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 5.9 cents more than one week ago, 15.4 cents higher than one month ago and $1.378 greater than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The rising gas prices are caused by high crude oil prices. The price of a barrel of West Texas intermediate crude for November delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose six of the past seven trading sessions, including increasing $1.26 Friday to settle at $83.76, its second-highest settlement price of the year, behind only Wednesday&#8217;s $83.87 settlement price.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement price increased for nine consecutive weeks, the longest streak on record. Figures are available back to April 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The crude oil price has increased 134.03% from its 52-week low of $35.79 on Oct. 30, 2020, because of higher demand following the elimination of coronavirus-related restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil costs account for slightly more than half of the pump price, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Monday for the 14th consecutive day, increasing four-tenths of a cent to $4.558, its highest amount since Oct. 19, 2012. The average price has increased 12.1 cents over the past 14 days, including seven-tenths of a cent Sunday, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104743,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104741\/revisions\/104743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}