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According to the ’s Weekenxd Gas Watch. the average price of self-server regular gasoline in theLos Angeles-Long Beacg area is $2.825 per gallon, which is 16.2 centsw more than last 49 cents higher than last and $1.44 less than last year. On the Central the average priceis $2.877, up 15.5 centd from last week, 44 cents above last month, and $1.48 belowa last year. In the Inland Empire, the average per gallonm priceis $2.810, which is 14.9 cents more than last 48 cents more than last month, and $1.476 less than last year.
"Just as in 2008, commodities investors are pushintg up crude oil and wholesals gasoline prices at a frenzied pace that seems to have no connectio to domestic fuel consumption or There have been some refinery issuews this year acrossthe U.S., but no more so than in otherr years," Auto Club spokesperson Jeffrey Spring said in a