Rockford has the … lowest … gas prices in the state

Add comment February 1st, 2008

Well, this is new.

According to AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com the Rockford metro area had the lowest gas prices in the state as of this morning. Our average price for regular unleaded was $2.983 a gallon, while the state average was $3.065. In the past two days, our average price has dropped about 3 cents while the state’s has risen about 2 cents.

Poor Champaign-Urbana has seen its gas prices rise on average 17 cents in those two days.

I don’t know if our lag is going to last: I paid $3.05 for gas today in Rockford (maybe I’m just dumb). But it shows that we’re not *always* at the top end of the state.