Today’s fuel price musings - We keep on sliding
September 29th, 2008 at 06:25pm Thomas V. Bona
Prices are down 20 cents nationally and 40 cents locally in the past two weeks on the gasoline side. The Gulf is still not fully turned out after the hurricanes, but getting there. That’ll bring more supplies up here, lowering prices more. And with oil dropping, gas should keep going down. Call it a little good news amid all the bad news.
Here are the prices (as always, courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):
Gasoline: Rockford dropped two cents to $3.79 a gallon. We have the third-highest gas prices in the state. The Illinois average dropped a cent to $3.85. The national average dropped a cent to $3.64. Illinois has the fifth-highest gas prices in the nation.
Diesel: Rockford dropped a cent to $4.06 a gallon. We have the fourth- or fifth-highest diesel prices in the state. The state average remained at $4.19. The national average dropped a cent to $4.08. Illinois the ninth-highest prices in the country.
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1. Joy | September 29th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
We\’re still higher than most of the country according to gasbuddy.com
2. Thomas V. Bona | September 30th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Yup.
I noted it in a story yesterday:
Motorists in Illinois are still paying more than those in much of the country as the region slowly regains gasoline supplies in the wake of hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The refineries shut down by the hurricanes particularly served the Southeast and Midwest.
“We’re seeing somewhat of a time lag,” Ritterbusch said. “There’s really only four or five refineries that are completely shut down in the Gulf. We’re going to see gasoline supplies building appreciably in the coming month.”
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