Today’s fuel price musings - I shoulda filled up last week

March 11th, 2008 at 06:33pm Thomas V. Bona

Sorry to leave you musing-less yesterday, but I did manage to write about gas prices, just not here.

On to today (data courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford increased almost a cent, to $3.27 a gallon, right smack dab at the Illinois average. Mostly minor ups and downs around the state, except for the Quad Cities, which rose almost three cents to an Illinois-leading $3.34 a gallon. The nation increased to almost $3.23 a gallon, tying a national record. Illinois metro areas remain well behind their record highs, but the question seems to be when - not if - those will be broken. Illinois now has the 12th-highest gas prices in the country, a far cry from Friday, when we were ranked 26th.

Diesel: Not only are we at a  record high in diesel prices, but we’re flirting with $4 a gallon diesel prices. Rockford increased seven cents to $3.90 a gallon and, because the average is for the entire metro area, some stations could see $4 before the whole area gets there. The state average rose its record high a cent to $3.96 a gallon. Chicago ($4.04) and Danville ($4.02) are already in the anti-promised land. The nation as a whole is at a record $3.85, rising two cents. Illinois has the 10th-highest diesel prices in the country.

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