The average price is 64.4 cents higher than a week ago and $2,036 higher than a year ago.
SAN DIEGO — The average price of a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline in San Diego County hit a record Sunday for the second day in a row, rising eight-tenths of a cent to $6,392.
The average price has risen 16 straight days and 29 of the past 30, rising $1.17, including 6.2 cents on Saturday and 15.7 cents on Thursday, the biggest daily increase since July 11, 2015, figures from the AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. .
The average price is 64.4 cents higher than a week ago and $2,036 higher than a year ago.
Sunday’s increase was the smallest since September 13, when the average price rose three-tenths of a cent.
The pre-Saturday record was $6,373 set on June 15.
Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board directing it to take all necessary steps to allow refineries to begin manufacturing and distributing winter-blended gasoline, which is cheaper to produce.
Stations cannot normally start selling winter blended gas until November 1.
“It’s hard to know when this will impact gas prices,” Marie Montgomery, public relations specialist at the Automobile Club of Southern California, told City News Service. “It all depends on how quickly the logistics can be adjusted to get that supply in the pipeline and also how quickly refineries come back from maintenance, but that should help stop the surges.”
An 11-day streak of national average price increases totaling 12.6 cents ended with a decline of four tenths of a cent to $3.796. That’s 8.2 cents more than a week ago and 60.2 cents more than a year ago, but 1.3 cents less than a month ago.
The national average price is $1.22 lower than the record high of $5.016 set on June 14.
The streak of increases followed a 98-day streak of declines totaling $1.342 that began the day after the record was set.
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