Auto Club: Thanksgiving Travelers Will See Slight Increases at the Gasoline Pump.Business Editors/Automotive Writers LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 2003 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 travelers will see nominal 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 price increases this week as they travel throughout the Southwest, 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 Automobile Club of Southern California's Weekend Gas Watch. Currently, the average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $1.734 per gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. , which is 1.1 cents higher than last Friday, Nov. 21. This price is 4.5 cents lower than last month and 15 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 $1.745, which is one cent above last week's level, 3 cents below last month and 8 cents higher than last year. Motorists in the central coast pay an average price of $1.836, which is 1.5 cents lower than last week's price, 4 cents below last month and 19 cents higher than last year. "Demand has increased over last month as the state and national economy continue to pick up speed," said Carol Thorp, Auto Club spokesperson. "But as long as oil prices, production and distribution remain stable, gas prices also should remain relatively stable as well for the remainder of the year." The Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline at popular destinations for motoring trips. Average prices as of 12:01 a.m., Nov. 26:
Area Regular Change from Record Price
last week
Los Angeles-Long Beach $1.734 +1.1 cents $2.167(3/22/03)
San Diego $1.745 +1.0 cents $2.211(3/20/03)
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc $1.836 +1.5 cents $2.233(8/27/03)
Las Vegas $1.697 +0.7 cents $2.063(3/25/03)
Phoenix $1.561 -0.7 cents $2.146(8/26/03)
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