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High Gas Prices This Holiday Weekend
Prices are back around 2008's record-breaking levels.
If you plan on hitting the road this weekend, you're going to have to grin and bear it--at least where gas prices are concerned.
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County recorded its largest daily increase since Feb. 27 Friday, rising 3.7 cents to $3.904, the highest since June 22.
Prices have risen for fiteen days in a row and helped push the average price up from 16 cents in just the last week.
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Data is from the Automobile Club of Southern California and Oil Price Information Service.
Jeffrey Spring of the Automobile Club blamed refinery issues for the spike.
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He also told City News Service that "Holiday travelers will be paying prices for their Labor Day fuel that are near or beyond what they paid in 2008, our record-breaking year for gas prices.''
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