Automobile Club of Southern California
11/06/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/06/2025 11:21
Auto Club: SoCal Gas Prices Spike After Refinery Problems
For the second time this year, Southern California gas prices experienced a week-long double-digit spike and are now within a dime of their highest levels of 2025, according to the Auto Club's Weekend Gas Watch. The average price for self-serve regular gasoline in California is $4.69, which is 12 cents higher than last week and 16 cents higher than a year ago today. The average national price is $3.08, which is five cents higher than a week ago and two cents lower than on this date last year.
The average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $4.85 per gallon, which is 22 cents higher than last week and 34 cents more than last year. In San Diego, the average price is $4.91, which is 21 cents higher than last week and 34 cents higher than the price this time last year.
On the Central Coast, the average price is $4.74, which is 16 cents higher than last week and 18 cents higher than last year. In Riverside, the average per-gallon price is $4.71, which is 20 cents higher than last week and 35 cents higher than a year ago. In Bakersfield, the $4.63 average price is eight cents higher than last week and 14 cents higher than a year ago today.
"The Phillips 66 refinery in Los Angeles is closing at the end of this year and stopped processing crude oil in mid-October, and that loss of capacity along with some planned and unplanned refinery maintenance caused some supply concerns," said Auto Club spokesperson Doug Shupe. "Usually when gas prices spike, Southern California receives additional imported supplies from Asia and Canada to make up the shortfall. Prices should reverse course and head downward once that happens."
Oil Price Information Service reports that the Phillips Los Angeles refinery closure, along with the upcoming closure of the Valero refinery in Northern California, will reduce the state's gasoline refining capacity by 17%.
The Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline. As of 9 a.m. on Nov. 6, averages are:
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