Today’s fuel price musings - not much news today

January 14th, 2009 at 08:57am Thomas V. Bona

A very slight drop in gas prices, but nothing to write home about. We also fell a  tad relative to the rest of the country, but again, not a very notable level.
Here are the prices (courtesy of AAA’s fuelgaugereport.com):

Gasoline: Rockford dropped a cent to $1.92 a gallon. We have the third-highest gas prices in the state, behind Chicago and Quad Cities. We’re tied as the 56th-highest of the nation’s 280 metro areas. The Illinois average dropped a fraction of a cent to remain at $1.93. The national average remained at $1.79. Illinois has the seventh-highest gas prices in the nation, including the District of Columbia. Alaska, California and Hawaii average more than $2 a gallon.

Diesel: Rockford dropped a fraction of a cent to remain at $2.40 a gallon. We have the sixth-highest diesel prices in the state. The state average dropped a fraction of a cent to remain at $2.55. The national average rose a fraction of a cent to remain at $2.43. Illinois has the 14th-highest diesel prices in the country. Only Alaska and Hawaii remain above $3 a gallon.

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