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Gas Prices Drop Below $4 Per Gallon
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County falls to $3.991.
For the first time since March 24, the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County has fallen below $4, City News Service reported. Wednesday's 1.2-cent drop brought the average price down to $3.991.
Here are gas prices at stations in Hermosa Beach. Prices are from GasBuddy.com and user-reported within the past 24 hours.
Arco, 1131 PCH
Regular: $3.93
Midgrade: $4.03
Premium: $4.13
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, 1131 PCH
Regular: $4.05
Midgrade: $4.19
Premium: $4.29
The average price of gas has dropped about 30 cents during the 33-day decrease—which followed a span where prices rose 43 times in 45 days.
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As of Wednesday morning, the average price is nearly 6 cents less than it was last week and almost 30 cents less than it was at this time last month, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.
The price is still 92.1 cents higher than it was last year.
Analysts credit the decrease in gas prices to the declining cost of crude oil, which can account for up to three-quarters of the price of a gallon of gasoline. The price of a barrel of benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange has dropped 13 percent to $99.09.
— City News Service contributed to this report.
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