Today’s fuel price musings - no record yet

April 16th, 2008 at 09:20am Thomas V. Bona

Well, despite a number of local gas stations reaching near $3.55 a gallon yesterday we didn’t reach a record for the entire metro area. But we’re real close (Data courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford increased two cents to $3.45 a gallon today, only one cent from our record set back in May. Every single metro area in Illinois increased on news of record crude oil prices. East St. Louis is at a record of almost $3.59 a gallon, while a couple other metro areas set records in past days. The state average increased almost two cents to a record $3.52 today. Rockford has the fourth-highest prices in the state. The national average has set records for about all of the past week, and increased more than a cent to an unheard-of $3.40 a gallon today. Illinois has the sixth-highest gas prices in the nation.

Diesel: More records here. Rockford increased more than a cent to a record $4.17 a gallon today. Some other metro areas increased, some decreased and some stood pat. The state average increased half a cent to $4.21 a gallon, just shy of the record set Monday. We have the fourth-highest diesel prices in the state. The nation increased its record average a cent to $4.13 a gallon. Illinois is tied for the 14th-highest prices in the country.

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