The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose 1.8 cents Friday to $5.802 after back-to-back increases of 13.3 cents, which were its second-largest increases since July 14, 2015.
The smallest increase since March 1 is the result of oil prices beginning dropping Wednesday after the United Arab Emirates announced it would increase oil production and “encourage other OPEC members to do the same,” said Doug Shupe, the Automobile Club of Southern California’s corporate communications and programs manager.
Crude oil costs account for slightly more than half of the pump price, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
“However, locally there appears to be an issue with the Torrance PBF refinery after a power outage has caused five days of ‘unplanned flaring’ there, which is a sign of a breakdown that could disrupt gas supply,” Shupe said. “It remains to be seen whether that will continue to drive pump prices up even if oil prices drop more.”
The average price has risen 17 consecutive days, increasing $1.015, and setting 17 consecutive records, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 65 cents more than one week ago, $1.052 higher than one month ago and $1.956 greater than one year ago.
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FWB says
Before we can start using our own Natural Resources, we must first wait for:
Politicians to move their investments again. They moved from Big Pharma to Russian Petroleum and now, with Russian Sanctions, they will need to move their investment’s to American Petroleum and Gas!