By Hannah Madans in The Orange County Register

January 25, 2016

As friends and relatives in the Midwest chortle over cheap gas, why can’t Californians catch the same break, you ask?

The national average for a gallon of gas on Monday was $1.82. Here in Orange County, it’s $2.80. The good news? That’s down 11 cents in a week and 20 cents in a month.

Despite the plunging price of crude oil, local gas prices are more than 36 cents a gallon above prices from the same period last January. At the market close Monday, crude oil was $30.34 a barrel.

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