You know you are back in the Chicago area when: (Phoenix: sales, condos)

[cubssoxfan]

• Gas costs $0.80 a gallon more
• Sales tax is higher
• Tolls-oh goody
• Lake Michigan air conditioning high jacked another warm spring day.
• Another story about "the Chicago way" of politics in C(r)ook County

On the plus side, it is good to be home again.

[knitgirl]

You see GREEN! I was in Phoenix recently and I hated all that brown.

[cubssoxfan]

I was on the beach, no condos or commercial blight and drove through the beauty of AL, TN, KY and the lower cost farmlands of Indiana. Once you hit Lake Co. Indiana prices go up, then another step "up" in Cook Co. Good thing I didn't venture into the city or the gas prices would have really made me feel like I was violated.
Why are our gas prices so high again? Can't be due to all the new highway and transit projects.

[Aleking]

people in suburbs love to complain about gas prices

[cubssoxfan]

So you enjoy paying some of the highest gas prices in the country? In a State rife with corruption and mis-management? And you don't think the two are possibly connected?
Downstate gas is $3.89 Illinois Gas Prices - Find Cheap Gas Prices in Illinois
Besides the reformulation for emissions control, why are we paying more??

[Nodpete]

Originally Posted by Aleking

people in suburbs love to complain about gas prices

And people in the city like to pay fees on everything in addition to high taxes.

[linicx]

The gas prices are high in Illinois because our governors have never capped the profit on fuel. MO, unless it has changed in the last 4-5 years, is capped at 10% per dollar. The stations that get caught gouging customers cough up $50K per violation.

A friend of mine owned a convenience store. I asked him how he lived? He said the profit came from store rather than the gas. He sold everything from alcohol to worms and yellow apples to Tulsa zoo passes.


Everyone eats. There is no reason groceries cannot be raised 1/2 of 1% or even 1%.

Originally Posted by cubssoxfan

I was on the beach, no condos or commercial blight and drove through the beauty of AL, TN, KY and the lower cost farmlands of Indiana. Once you hit Lake Co. Indiana prices go up, then another step "up" in Cook Co. Good thing I didn't venture into the city or the gas prices would have really made me feel like I was violated.
Why are our gas prices so high again? Can't be due to all the new highway and transit projects.

[jman07]

Originally Posted by linicx

The gas prices are high in Illinois because our governors have never capped the profit on fuel. MO, unless it has changed in the last 4-5 years, is capped at 10% per dollar. The stations that get caught gouging customers cough up $50K per violation.

A friend of mine owned a convenience store. I asked him how he lived? He said the profit came from store rather than the gas. He sold everything from alcohol to worms and yellow apples to Tulsa zoo passes.


Everyone eats. There is no reason groceries cannot be raised 1/2 of 1% or even 1%.

Thats propaganda. And based on what evidence? The taxes are higher in the city, making the prices higher. The further you get out of the city and county the lower it gets because of taxes. Its not hard to figure out where the money per gallon of gas is allocated. The taxes and fuel cost is public information. Its not because the stations are gouging us. It obviously would have been uncovered by now if that was true because all the conspiracy theorists and angry consumers think that.

[sunnyandcloudydays]

This morning Gasbuddy.com had most of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana
A nice shade of Red, Orange and yellow.

[Aleking]

Originally Posted by Nodpete

And people in the city like to pay fees on everything in addition to high taxes.

meh, my prop taxes are pretty low and the sales tax is more than offset by my 0$ transportation budget.