Auto Club: Motorists Gobble Holiday Savings At the Gas Pump; Second Straight Week of Lower Prices.News/Travel Editors & Automotive Writers LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2002 Motorists traveling over the river and through the woods this Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. holiday weekend will be greeted by lower 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 prices in most areas, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Weekend Gas Watch, compiled by the Automobile Club of Southern California The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded December 13, 1900 in Los Angeles as one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws and improvement of overall driving conditions. . The Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline at popular destinations for motoring trips. Currently, the average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $1.576 per gallon, which is 1.4 cents lower than last week's price, 5 cents higher than last month and 38 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 $1.651 which is 1.3 cents lower than last week's level, 5 cents above last month and 27 cents more than last year. Motorists in the central coast have an average price of $1.646, which is unchanged from last week's price, 4 cents above last month and 32 cents higher than last year. "Even though many people take driving trips during the holidays, the overall demand for gas is weak and that helps to push pump prices lower," Auto Club spokesperson Carol Thorp said. "This is the second consecutive week for price declines in our area."
Average prices as of 12:01 a.m., Nov. 28:
Area Regular Change from Record Price
last week
Los Angeles-Long Beach $1.576 -1.4 cents $2.036 (5/25/01)
San Diego $1.651 -1.3 cents $2.025 (5/29/01)
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-
Lompoc $1.646 unchanged $2.069 (5/16/01)
Las Vegas $1.445 -0.6 cents $1.885 (3/27/00)
Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz. $1.369 -0.7 cents $1.720 (5/30/01)
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