CHICAGO – (Ally Marotti, Chicago Tribune. Please click on the link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt.)
Travelers in Illinois are starting summer road trip season with the lowest gas prices for this time of year
in more than a decade.
At $2.40 per gallon, the Illinois average for regular unleaded gas was about 2 cents higher than the national average Monday but about 13 cents lower than a year ago, according to AAA numbers.
Gas prices typically rise as the summer beats on, peaking around the Fourth of July, Mosher said, but prices this summer are expected to remain tame.
A concoction of low demand and generally more mild prices that have stuck around for a couple of years helped with that, Mosher said. Plus, springtime refinery issues that often hit Illinois and push up prices didn’t happen this year.
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