Today’s fuel price musings - National gas record, local decrease

April 3rd, 2008 at 02:46pm Thomas V. Bona

More mixed messages (Data courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford dropped two cents to $3.35 a gallon Wednesday. The state as a whole stayed right at $3.41. We have the sixth-highest gas prices in the state, slipping behind Peoria. The national average increased a fraction of a cent back into a record at  $3.29 a gallon. Illinois has the sixth-highest gas prices in the country.

Diesel: Rockford increased just over a cent back to $4.09 a gallon. We were one of only two metro areas to increase today and now have the third-highest diesel prices in the state. The state average remained at $4.14 a gallon and the nation dropped slightly to $4.02. Illinois has the 12th-highest prices in the country.

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