The owner of a building who installed an illegal supergraphic at Hollywood and Highland went to jail over the weekend (and with $1 million set as bail!), but owners of the numerous properties across the city with Fuel poster-sized billboards on site are still in limbo, it appears. more ›

After our post last week about fake signs enforcing illegal billboards, the LA Weekly speaks to the anonymous caper. Why isn't this being enforced, the Weekly asks. "The city claims it doesn't have the money to enforce [against illegal billboards]," the bandit explained. "Why don't they simply collect all the signs and make Fuel buy them back? That could help solve the budget problem and provide city jobs that are now under the axe." more ›

Back in December, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case between the city of Los Angeles and Fuel Outdoor, a billboard company responsible for many of the poster-sized signs at corners all over Los Angeles. At issue was a 2002 city off-site sign ban, which meant Fuel signs were in violation. They challenged the city and lost in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. more ›

Shaq is now one of the newest investors in a San Diego based company that provides car owners with their own portable ethanol filling station at home. The Microfueler from GreenHouse is an in-home organic fuel microrefinery that allows you fill up any car that can take regular gas. The $10,000 contraption takes in a feedstock mixture to produce the ethanol that is pumped into cars. more ›

After years of lawsuits against the Bush Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency today granted California the permission it wanted to impose strict emissions regulations on cars sold in the state. By 2016, fuel economy in cars and trucks sold in the state will need to have an average of 35.5 miles per gallon, a reduction of 40%. more ›

Last night, Sundance winner for Best Documentary “FUEL”, a film about... well, could you guess?... fuel... premiered at the ConserveFuel in Brentwood. The film is the culmination of the eleven year journey, by director Josh Tickell, educating the public about biodiesel and other fuel related topics. more ›

No longer are the days of daily gas price decreases. For the fifth consecutive day, prices in the Los Angeles region have increased. Today's average price for a gallon of regular is $1.766. But not to worry, the Daily News has a good perspective: "The average price has risen 4.4 cents in a week, but is 48.5 cents less than a month ago, $1.469 less than at this time last year and $2.86 less than the record high of $4.626 set on June 21..." more ›

Today gas hit the average price of $1.784 per gallon of regular which has Californians paying lower average gas prices than people in twelve other states, according to Jeffrey Spring at the Auto Club. "It's an unusual situation for this state to have prices within a dime of the national average, but it is a welcome bit of relief for Californians who have been particularly hard hit by the economic downturn." That national average sits at $1.683 today. more ›

For fun, we're taking bets in the comment section on which day gas prices will swing upward (day 100? day 94? day 84?). Today, the price of a gallon of regular gas in Los Angeles/Long Beach is $1.961, nearly three cents lower than yesterday, according to AAA. Nationally, the average sits at $1.812 and is $1.940 statewide. We're going with day 101--in honor of the freeway--as our bet for the day gas prices will turn around. You? more ›

Today's average price for a regular gallon of gas is $2.180. That's 14.7 cents lower than a few days ago last Friday when it was $2.327. Back on June 21st, gas spiked to its record average high at 4.626. As many like to say.. Road trip! more ›

AAA is reporting some big number trends today: "the average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $2.327 per gallon, which is 19.1 cents less than last week, 97 cents lower than last month, and $1.07 under last year." Prices are also nearly half what they were in June when gas spiked to its record average high at 4.626 on June 21st. more ›

Two stations in Pasadena on East Washington Street (between Lake and Hill) found today by Fox 11's helicopter were selling regular gas for $1.98 and $1.97 a gallon. However, those two are bucking the trend as the average price in the Los Angeles region today is $2.36. Last Friday it was $2.491, 13-cents lower. more ›

The average price of a regular gallon of gas today is $2.491. Gas prices have declined for 59 days straight, falling an average of $1.25, according to the Daily News. more ›

Around the nation, some cities are finding their gas prices to be lower than $2. For Los Angeles, that's not the reality, at least yet. Today, the average price of a regular gallon of gas in Los Angeles is $2.574, 27-cents lower than a week ago Monday and 15.6-cents lower than last Thursday. As usual, you may know about cheaper than the average gas in the area. If so, chime in the comments section. more ›

In five days, gas prices have dropped more than 10-cents. On October 22 a regular gallon of gas was $3.25, 20-cents less than a week prior to then. Today, the price for the Los Angeles area averages out to $3.137. In fact, some stations, near and far, are changing out that 3 for a 2: "We've never seen local gas prices come down this fast in such a short period," Auto Club spokesperson Jeffrey Spring said last Friday. "Gas stations in Buena Park, Chula Vista, Visalia and a few other local cities are the first to post sub-$3 gas prices, and we could see many more over the next week if this decline continues." more ›

The rising cost of fuel has people from all walks of life making adjustments in their behavior and sacrifices in their lives. more ›

Metro's Universal City Asphalt Heat Island is a little cooler now, thanks to a malfunctioning irrigation system that has resulted in days and days (at least five by our count) of continuous water flow. more ›

You just finished filling up your tank at the gas station, but the next thing you do is not grab your keys to leave, it's to take an extra twenty seconds to note some statistics by inputting into Twitter the miles since your last fill up, the price per gallon and how many gallons you put in. more ›

This is last Friday as reported by LAist Featured Photos contributor Jonathan Alcom: "A gallon of regular gasoline priced at 3.99 at a Unocal gas station on Pico Bl and Barrington in West Los Angeles on Friday March 7, 2008 as surging oil prices jumped to a new record above $106 Friday. This gas station was about 40 cents higher than other gas stations in the area." more ›

When I bought my first car, I first went to the Toyota in Valencia. I walked out soon after when they tried to sell me a car by comparing it to finding a woman and then highlighting how cool spoilers were. What a bunch of fucking morons. Apparently, the troglodyte breed at Toyota goes up the corporate ladder. Siel Ju, aka GreenLAGirl, at the LA Times sticks it to Toyota after visiting the LA... more ›

Begging the question of "how much does gasoline cost in Riverside", a man was discovered carrying 125 gallons of gasoline in his van when witnesses saw vapors rising from his parked love machine. The fumes were occurring because the gentleman had placed the fuel in bottles like what once contained laundry detergent and other containers not designed to carry gasoline in vans. "It was just unbelievable," Battalion Chief Jeff Dredla told the Riverside Press... more ›