East Bay gas average slides 17 cents in a week but sits about $1.16 above last year

Pump prices in the East Bay kept falling over the past week, though drivers are still paying far more than they did a year ago.

AAA's average for a gallon of regular in the Oakland metro area was $5.74 on Monday, according to the motor club's daily survey. That is down about 17 cents from a week ago and about 66 cents from a month ago, when the average was $6.40. A year ago, the same gallon cost about $4.58, making today's price roughly $1.16 higher.

California's statewide average for regular was also about $5.74 on Monday. That remains below the state's all-time high of about $6.44, set in June 2022, AAA's figures show.

Diesel has eased too, but slowly. The statewide average was about $8.14 a gallon Monday, compared with the record of about $8.51 set Oct. 18. In the Oakland area, diesel averaged about $8.26.

Across the Bay Area

County averages compiled from AAA data by Bay City News on Sunday put Alameda County at about $5.75 a gallon. Solano County was the region's cheapest at $5.62, followed by Santa Clara County at $5.69. Contra Costa and San Francisco counties were each at $5.74, while Sonoma County had the highest Bay Area average at $5.83.

Bay City News said statewide prices dropped about 15 cents last week, a little faster than the national decline of about 12 cents. The news service tied the continued swings in fuel prices to the ongoing U.S. war with Iran and Russia's war with Ukraine.

Sources

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