Californians will pay nearly a dollar more for a gallon of regular gasoline this Labor Day weekend than they did last year, and $2 more than in 2020, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.
Although the cost of gas in the Golden State has slowly backed off its record price of $6.43 per gallon, the current average is still higher than that of the same time last year.
Days before the holiday weekend on Aug. 29, the statewide average was $5.28 a gallon, the same as in Los Angeles County. In Orange County, the average cost was nearly $5.19. The national average was $3.85, according to the American Automobile Association, of which the auto club is a member….