The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles area fell for the tenth consecutive week, slipping 5 cents to $2.310 for the week ended Dec. 12.

L.A. prices are 13 cents higher than they were a year ago, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. L.A. had the second-highest price, behind Miami, of the cities surveyed.

Statewide, prices slipped 5.8 cents to $2.277 from $2.335 one week earlier, leaving them 14.2 cents higher than year-ago rates. New York out-priced California, which had the highest-price gas in the nation for nine straight weeks, gaining 2.9 cents to $2.343.

Massachusetts had the lowest-priced gas of the states surveyed, at $2.128 per gallon, and the city with the cheapest gas was Houston, which rose 9.4 cents to $2.104 per gallon.