Today’s fuel price musings - prices dropped, but have jumped back up

September 5th, 2008 at 05:10pm Thomas V. Bona

Oil prices fell another dollar today, but something must have happened on the wholesale gasoline front today, because gas prices around Rockford increased to around $3.85 a gallon at the middle of the day. I’ll try to find out more next week…

Here’s what the price situation for the metro area, state and nation were as of this morning (prices courtesy of AAAs fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford dropped almost two cents to $3.70 a gallon overnight. We have the seventh-highest gas prices in the state. The Illinois average dropped almost a cent to $3.84. The national average dropped a fraction of a cent to $3.67. Illinois has the eighth-highest gas prices in the nation.

Diesel: Rockford dropped almost a cent to $4.16 a gallon. We have the fifth-highest diesel prices in the state. The state average dropped almost a cent to $4.33. The national average dropped a cent to $4.26. Illinois is tied with the 15th-highest prices in the country (including the District of Columbia).

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