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A year ago, the average gas price in the Midwest region was 11% higher at $3.72 per gallon. >> INTERACTIVE: See how your area's gas prices have changed over the years at data.news-leader.com .
The national average for a gallon of gas sits at $4.671 for regular unleaded gas as of June 1 while diesel gas prices are at $5.54 per gallon on average nationally, down from the record high of $5 ...
Illinois residents can expect to see lower gas prices come 2024, according to a new outlook report released Thursday by GasBuddy.
The average price in 2012 was $3.618 per US gallon ($0.96/L), the highest ever yearly average as of 31 December 2012. As of 31 December 2012, the average price of gasoline was $3.298/US gal ($0.87/L), with New York at $3.70/US gal ($0.98/L) for the highest in the US, and Colorado at $2.987/US gal ($0.79/L) for the lowest.
Since the 1980s until 2011, domestic ethanol producers were protected by a 54-cent per gallon import tariff, mainly intended to curb Brazilian sugarcane ethanol imports. Beginning in 2004 blenders of transportation fuel received a tax credit for each gallon of ethanol they mix with gasoline.
In 2008, oil prices rose briefly, to as high as $145 per barrel, [25] and U.S. gasoline prices jumped from $1.37 to $2.37 per gallon in 2005, [26] causing a search for alternate sources, and by 2012, less than half the US oil consumption was imported. However, as of January 2015, the price of oil has decreased to around $50 per barrel. [27]
“There are three refineries in the Chicagoland area: BP (in Whiting Indiana) with a capacity of 440,000 barrels per day, ExxonMobil Joliet at 275,000 and Citgo in Lemont Illinois at 194,000 ...
State Taxes. The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. [ 1][ 2] Proceeds from the tax partly support the Highway Trust Fund. The federal tax was last raised on October 1, 1993, and is not indexed to inflation, which increased 111% from Oct. 1993 until Dec. 2023.