Gasoline prices rise in California

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The pain at the pump is getting worse in California.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline rose 6 cents to $2.308 in the last week, the Energy Department said today. Although the state’s average price has been moving higher in recent weeks, it’s still $1.38 cheaper than it was at this time last year.

In most of the rest of the nation, gasoline prices eased a bit, bringing the national average down nearly a penny to $2.037 a gallon, the Energy Department said, based on a weekly survey of nearly 800 filling stations. The U.S. average price is $1.295 a gallon lower than a year earlier.

-- Nancy Rivera Brooks