{"id":107362,"date":"2022-03-24T16:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=107362"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:39:51","slug":"average-la-county-gas-price-rises-for-30th-consecutive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/03\/24\/average-la-county-gas-price-rises-for-30th-consecutive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Average LA County gas price rises for 30th 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>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Thursday for the 30th consecutive day, increasing 1 cent to a record $6.031.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has risen $1.244 during the streak, including 1 cent Wednesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.<\/p>\n<p>It is 14.2 cents more than one week ago, $1.209 higher than one month ago and $2.103 greater than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Southern California gas prices are continuing to move higher due to refinery issues we have been experiencing recently,&#8221; Doug Shupe, the Automobile Club of Southern California&#8217;s corporate communications manager, told <em>City News Service.\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;PBF Energy refineries in Torrance and Martinez and a Valero refinery outside of San Francisco have experienced unexpected problems in recent weeks that caused a reduction in gasoline production and therefore more increases at the gas pumps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Torrance Refinery has been having issues restarting a key unit that went offline after a March 6 power outage, and there&#8217;s &#8220;no word yet on when things will return to full operation,&#8221; Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>The Torrance Refinery is capable of producing 1.8 billion gallons of gasoline per year, nearly 10% of the state&#8217;s demand, a refinery official said.<\/p>\n<p>While the Los Angeles County average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline rose 14.2 cents over the past week and the Orange County average price 13.8 cents, the national average dropped 5.3 cents, primarily because of the lower global price of crude oil, according to Andrew Gross, an AAA national public relations manager.<\/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 Thursday for the 30th consecutive day, increasing 1 cent to a record $6.031. The average price has risen $1.244 during the streak, including 1 cent Wednesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 14.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"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\/107362"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107363,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107362\/revisions\/107363"}],"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=107362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}