Today’s fuel price musings - Are records made to be broken?

March 31st, 2008 at 03:18pm Thomas V. Bona

A national record is fallen, could a local record be next? The details (data courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford’s spiked up about 5 cents over the weekend to $3.40 a gallon Sunday, then dropped to $3.38 Monday. Hopefully, they keep falling along with oil prices. Otherwise, we could be hitting the all-time record ( $3.46 a gallon) soon. Almost every area of the state spiked Sunday and dropped today.The state average is $3.42, even with yesterday and 10 cents from a state record. We’re down to fifth in the state, by the way. The national average hit a record this weekend and is at $3.29 a gallon. Illinois jumped to fifth-highest gas prices in the country.

Diesel: Better news here. Rockford dropped almost four cents today to $4.06 a gallon, eight cents from the record. Much of the state dipped slightly today, and the Illinois average decreased a penny to $4.14 a gallon, about two cents shy of its record. We’re down to sixth or seventh place for diesel prices in Illinois, depending on Quincy (I doubt their prices are actually at $0.00). The nation dropped less than a cent and remains at $4.02. Illinois has the 10th-highest prices in the country.

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