Week brings double-digit increases in gas prices - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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According to the ’s Weekend Gas the average priceof self-servde regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beacgh area is $2.825 per gallon, which is 16.2 centsa more than last week, 49 centds higher than last month, and $1.44 less than last year. On the Centrakl Coast, the average price is $2.877, up 15.5 centss from last week, 44 cents above last and $1.48 below last year. In the Inland the average per gallon price is whichis 14.9 cents more than last 48 cents more than last month, and $1.
47 less than last "Just as in 2008, commodities investors are pushintg up crude oil and wholesale gasoline prices at a frenziefd pace that seems to have no connectiomn to domestic fuel consumption or availability. Thers have been some refinery issues this year across the but no more so than inother years," Auto Club spokesperson Jeffrey Spring said in a