The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles area slipped for the thirteenth straight week, falling 4.4 cents to $2.213 for the week ended Jan. 2. The week before, prices eased 2.2 cents to $2.257.

L.A. prices are 22.1 cents higher than they were a year ago, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. L.A. had the sixth-highest price of the cities surveyed, behind Miami ($2.370), Chicago ($2.321), New York City ($2.302), Cleveland ($2.888) and Boston ($2.227) .

Statewide, prices fell 2 cents to $2.213 from $2.233 one week earlier, leaving them 23.1 cents higher than year-ago rates. New York out-priced California for the third week in a row, adding 5.3 cents to $2.444.

Washington had the lowest-priced gas of the states surveyed, at $2.155 per gallon, and the city with the cheapest gas was Seattle, which lost 2.3 cents to $2.106 per gallon.