Gas update.Gas Update: The average price of a gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. of self-serve regular 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 Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area dropped 6.5 cents to $2.83 for the week ended Oct. 24. L.A. prices are 39.8 cents higher than they were a year ago, 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 federal Energy Information Administration. Statewide, prices slipped 7.5 cents to $2.827 from $2.902 a week earlier, leaving them 43.3 cents higher than year-ago rates. California had the highest-priced gas in the nation for the third consecutive week. |
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