Gasoline prices continued making small declines in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California, dipping for the third straight week, the Automobile Club of Southern California said.

The average price for regular self-serve unleaded gasoline in Los Angeles slid 2.2 cents to $2.581 on Friday from $2.603 one week ago. The price was $2.494 per gallon one month ago, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.

“Falling crude oil prices and growing national inventories of gasoline and oil are helping push down our local gas prices,” said Auto Club spokesperson Carol Thorp. “Motorists can look forward to a continuing trend of slowly declining prices at the pumps for the next few weeks.”

For the fifth Friday in a row, the lowest average price in Southern California was in Orange County, at $2.566. The Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc area reported the highest average local price, at $2.709. And for the first time in months, all of the Southern California areas surveyed by AAA had price decreases from last Friday.

The Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline as of 12:01 a.m., May 6.