Today’s fuel price musings - everybody up but us!

Add comment April 11th, 2008

A (brief?) reprieve in Rockford (Data courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford dropped less than a cent and stands at $3.43 a gallon today, while most of the state and nation increased. The state average jumped a cent to $3.48 today, four cents from its record. Rockford has the fourth-highest prices in the state (Springfield just passed us and is also around $3.43 a gallon). The national average continued to set records, increasing a cent to $3.37 a gallon. Illinois has the sixth-highest gas prices in the nation. Perhaps Rockford already saw its spike earlier in the week? Or is our spike yet to come?

Diesel: Rockford dropped more than two cents to $4.10 a gallon today , while most of the state increased. The state average increased almost two cents to tie a record at almost $4.16 a gallon. We have the third -highest diesel prices in the state. The nation jumped two cents to a record $4.07 a gallon. Illinois is tied for the 13th-highest prices in the country.