Cheapest Gas

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose today for the ninth consecutive day, increasing three-tenths of a cent to $3.814, according to the City News Service.

The average price is 2.4 cents more than one week ago and 69.2 cents more than at this time last year, but 11.8 cents less than a month ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.

This is the first time the average price has increased for at least nine days in a row since a 10-day streak of increases from April 27-May 6. Before the current increases began, the average price had fallen 62 out of 63 days.
  
The rising gasoline prices are the result of increases to the price of crude oil and wholesale gasoline, stemming from a weaker dollar, according to Jeffrey Spring of the Automobile Club of Southern California.

Crude oil costs account for two-thirds to three-quarters of the price of a gallon of gasoline, according to Tupper Hull of the Western States Petroleum Association, a trade association representing oil companies in six western states.

Here are the cheapest places to fill your tank with regular gas in North Hollywood (prices courtesy of GasBuddy):

$3.67 Thrifty, 6800 Lankershim Blvd & Vanowen St.

$3.69 ARCO 6757 Laurel Canyon Blvd & Vanowen St.

$3.69 ARCO 6804 Vineland Ave & Vanowen St.

$3.69 Quality 10740 Vanowen St & Denny Ave. ($3.79 for regular w/ credit card).

$3.71 ARCO 8004 Lankershim Blvd & Strathern St.

$3.73 ARCO 10601 Magnolia Blvd & Cahuenga Blvd.

$3.73 ARCO 12050 Roscoe Blvd & Laurel Canyon Blvd.

$3.75 76 6761 Vineland Ave & Vanowen St (Cash Price).

$3.83 Valero 5957 Vineland Ave & Oxnard St.

–City News Service contributed to this report.