{"id":106275,"date":"2022-01-21T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=106275"},"modified":"2022-01-21T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:39:53","slug":"average-la-county-gas-price-drops-slightly-for-fourth-consecutive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/01\/21\/average-la-county-gas-price-drops-slightly-for-fourth-consecutive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Average LA County gas price drops slightly for fourth consecutive day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105305\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"918\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump.jpg 918w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped one-tenth of a cent Friday, the fourth consecutive slight decrease following back-to-back increases totaling four-tenths of a cent.<\/p>\n<p>The average price of $4.672 is a half-cent less than one week ago and one-tenth of a cent lower than one month ago but $1.308 higher than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.<\/p>\n<p>The average price decreased three-tenths of a cent Tuesday, two-tenths of a cent Wednesday and one-tenth of a cent Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County average price dropped four-tenths of a cent to $4.652, one day after decreasing one-tenth of a cent. It is six-tenths of a cent less than one week ago but 1.1 cents more than one month ago and $1.303 higher than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>While the Los Angeles County average price has dropped 4.4 cents since hitting the record high of $4.716 on Nov. 27 and the Orange County average price has decreased 3.7 cents since rising to $4.689 on Nov. 26, one-tenth of a cent less than the record set on Oct. 8, 2012, increases are expected in a few weeks with the start of the traditional &#8220;spring spike&#8221; season that typically brings increases averaging 50 cents a gallon, according to Jeffrey Spring, the Automobile Club of Southern California&#8217;s corporate communications manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not counting 2020, when the pandemic shut down gas demand, the typical Los Angeles spring gas price spike since 2017 is about 54 cents per gallon, ranging from a low of 21 cents in 2017 to a high of 86 cents in 2019,&#8221; Spring said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the lack of relief in pump prices due to continued high oil prices, it&#8217;s increasingly likely that Southern California gas prices will reach new record highs sometime in the next few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped one-tenth of a cent Friday, the fourth consecutive slight decrease following back-to-back increases totaling four-tenths of a cent. The average price of $4.672 is a half-cent less than one week ago and one-tenth of a cent lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105305,"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\/106275"}],"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=106275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106276,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106275\/revisions\/106276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}