Auto Club: Gas Prices Continue Downward Trend.Automotive Writers/Travel Writers LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2003 Average gas prices continued to move down in most locations monitored by the Automobile Club of Southern California's Weekend Gas Watch. Low wintertime demand and consistent production are the primary reasons for the downward trend. Starting last week, the Weekend Gas Watch expanded its coverage to major U.S. cities, since many Southland south·land or South·land n. A region in the south of a country or an area. south  land·er n.Noun 1. residents rent cars when they travel throughout the country. In California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). prices have dropped between 2-3 cents. Currently, the average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $1.663, which is 2.9 cents lower than last week. This price is 4.4 cent lower than last month and 13.7 cents higher than last year. In San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , the price is $1.681, which is 3.4 cents below last week's level, 4.9 cents below last month and 8.3 cents higher than last year. Motorists in the central coast pay an average price of $1.770, which is 3.2 cents lower than last week's price, 4.6 cents below last month and 16.9 cents higher than last year. "Just in time for the holidays, gas prices are falling throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and all over the country," said Carol Thorp, Auto Club spokesperson. "Unless there is an interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. in supply, we expect prices to remain near this level through the end of the month. Then we'll we'll Contraction of we will. we'll we will or we shall we'll will ~shall see what happens." The Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline at metropolitan destinations throughout the nation. Average prices as of 12:01 a.m., Dec. 19:
Area Regular Change from Record Price
last week
Los Angeles-Long Beach $1.663 $(0.029) $2.167 (3/22/2003)
San Diego $1.681 $(0.034) $2.211 (3/20/2003)
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria- $1.770 $(0.032) $2.233 (8/27/2003)
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National Average $1.471 $0.014 $1.737 (8/30/2003)
New York $1.745 $(0.014) $1.968 (9/6/2003)
Washington, D.C. $1.583 $(0.017) $1.797 (5/16/2001)
Boston $1.545 $(0.007) $1.812 (9/3/2003)
Philadelphia $1.543 $(0.016) $1.807 (9/3/2003)
Atlanta $1.331 $0.009 $1.589 (3/18/2003)
Miami $1.496 $(0.008) $1.761 (3/18/2003)
Chicago $1.577 $(0.004) $2.142 (6/19/2000)
Detroit $1.434 $0.015 $2.137 (6/20/2000)
Kansas City, Mo. $1.351 $0.052 $1.790 (6/21/2000)
St. Louis $1.364 $0.084 $1.767 (5/17/2001)
Denver $1.357 $0.001 $1.780 (6/5/2001)
Dallas $1.401 $(0.002) $1.666 (5/12/2001)
Houston $1.369 $(0.002) $1.639 (5/12/2001)
Salt Lake City $1.519 $(0.017) $1.789 (9/4/2003)
Las Vegas $1.634 $(0.039) $2.063 (3/25/2003)
Phoenix $1.512 $(0.019) $2.146 (8/26/2003)
Seattle $1.532 $(0.029) $1.969 (9/4/2003)
San Francisco $1.764 $(0.029) $2.276 (3/19/2003)
Honolulu $2.011 $0.003 $2.054 (10/2/2003)
The national average price of regular gasoline has been inching downward for the past couple of weeks. Demand is high for this time of year, but there is a lot of gasoline being imported from Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). and
Venezuela Venezuela (vĕnəzwā`lə, Span. vānāswā`lä), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, republic (2005 est. pop. 25,375,000), 352,143 sq mi (912,050 sq km), N South America. . Those imports have helped to push prices lower. The national
average may drop another couple of cents before the end of 2003.
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