The average price is 53 cents more than one week ago, $1.207 higher than one month ago and $2.07 greater than one year ago.
The streak of increases follows a run of 78 decreases in 80 days totaling $1.216 that began June 15, one day after the average price rose to a then-record $6.462.The Orange County average price rose 2.2 cents to $6.445, topping the previous record of $6.429 set Saturday. It dropped seven-tenths of a cent Sunday and rose one-tenth of a cent Monday.
“It’s a positive sign to see that we no longer have double-digit increases daily and hopefully we will start to see prices level off and move lower,” Doug Shupe, the Automobile Club of Southern California’s corporate communications manager, told City News Service. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board on Friday directing it to take whatever steps are necessary to allow refineries to begin making and distributing winter-blend gasoline, which is cheaper to produce. Stations normally cannot start selling winter blend gas until Nov. 1.