L.A. Gas Averaged $5.81. Greene Says $6 Is Trump's Fault.

Federal weekly data puts Los Angeles regular at $5.805 a gallon, about $1.49 above the national average.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump ally, blamed Trump for gas prices in a video filmed outside a California station where regular sold for $6.19. The Hill reported the remarks on September 17, 2026. The outlet's account puts the rest of the sign at:

• $6.47 for plus
• $6.75 for supreme
• $8.49 for diesel

Here's what a driver in Los Angeles actually paid. Regular averaged $5.805 a gallon across the Los Angeles metro area in the week ending September 14, 2026, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration's weekly retail series. Nationally, regular averaged $4.319 that week. The gap is $1.486 a gallon, a premium of roughly 35 percent.

So the sign in her video runs about 38 cents above the metro average. One station isn't a metro.

The $6 framing doesn't need that outlier, though. In the same federal week, Los Angeles midgrade averaged $6.152 a gallon and premium $6.235. Statewide California midgrade came in at $6.107, with premium at $6.284.

Diesel is the one line on the sign that runs high. California on-highway diesel averaged $8.039 a gallon in the federal series, about 45 cents under the pump price in the video. The EIA publishes no diesel series for the Los Angeles city area.

Prices are climbing, and not only here. Los Angeles regular rose 12.3 cents on the week and California regular 14.9 cents, while the national average added 16.2 cents. All three series have risen five weeks straight, since the week ending August 17, 2026. Los Angeles sat at $5.402 then; the country was at $4.049.

The gap narrowed. Because the national average rose faster than the Los Angeles average in the most recent week, the premium drivers pay at a pump here shrank by about four cents a gallon.

The Hill also cited AAA's national figure of about $4.44 for regular, up roughly 17 cents on the week, the outlet reported. AAA put the month's increase at about 40 cents. That's a separate daily average, and it won't match the EIA's Monday-to-Monday series line for line.

Los Angeles isn't the priciest metro on the federal list, either. San Francisco regular averaged $5.930 the same week, about 12.5 cents more than here.

The next weekly EIA release is September 22, 2026.