Gasoline prices rose this week for the fifth consecutive week, approaching three U.S. dollars per gallon as California's prices became the nation's highest outside Hawaii, the Automobile Club of Southern California reported Friday.
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular unleaded stood at 2.975 dollars in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area this morning, 1.4 cents more than last week, 23 cents more than last month and 29 cents more than at this time last year. However. it was 51.2 cents below the record high of 3.487 dollars registered on May 9.
The price rose 2.9 cents from Sept. 21-28, 7.5 cents from Sept. 14-21, 9.2 cents from Sept. 7-14 and 3.2 cents from Aug. 31-Sept. 7 after dropping 15 of the previous 16 weeks.
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline was last above three dollars in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area Aug. 3.
"Prices have been increasing for the past five weeks in Southern California, but in the last 14 days most areas have seen prices rise by less than a nickel," Auto Club spokeswoman Carol Thorp said.
"Prices in most other states have been dropping after hovering over three dollars a gallon for much of the summer, and California is once again in the familiar position of having higher gas prices than any other state except Hawaii."
The Auto Club provided this breakdown of gasoline prices in selected portions of California and Nevada as of Firday.
Source: Xinhua
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