Gasoline Industry

Letters to the editor from Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park and Palos Park residents. Gas-price mystery Here we go again. We, the Chicago-area lemmings, who rely upon gasoline for our daily lives, again face insane prices. Reports suggest...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Energy Department launched the eGallon – a quick and simple way for consumers to compare the costs of fueling electric vehicles vs. driving on gasoline.  In Missouri, the eGallon price is about $1.24, meaning that a typical...

SOUTH BEND -- So far this month, the Indiana Attorney General's Office has received more than 80 gas-price related complaints. In comparison, it received just 15 complaints in all of May. "It affects us all when prices are this high and we do understand...

People who drive electric cars pay the equivalent of $1.51 per gallon of gas in fueling expense in California but only 83 cents in North Dakota, according to new federal government figures. The Energy Department data show the wide variability between...

DETROIT (AP) — Auto companies are hoping lower lease prices can put a charge into sluggish electric car sales. Honda announced Thursday that it's slashing the monthly lease cost of its tiny Fit EV by one third, following similar moves by other...

PETOSKEY -- A classic situation of tight supply and strong demand appears to be driving the recent gasoline price climb in the Great Lakes region, a fuel price analyst said Wednesday. Last weekend, the price for regular unleaded fuel at many Petoskey...

Gasoline prices are only slightly below levels set in 2011 and 2012, according to Energy Department statistics. But even a relatively small decline is enough to dent the used car auction prices of hybrid vehicles and the retained value of electric...

Summer gasoline prices will be lower in the U.S. than they were last year. But they won't be much lower, experts say, because U.S. refineries have been exporting record amounts of fuel overseas. That's behind what would normally just be a good news...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan utility regulators say gasoline consumption is expected to decline slightly this summer compared with previous years. The Michigan Public Service Commission's recently released summer energy appraisal forecasts...

Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...

Summer is coming. The long Memorial Day weekend is just two weeks away and, of course, average gasoline prices in California are back up above $4 a gallon. On Friday, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in California was $4.062, up 7.6...

Gas prices in Anchorage are climbing again. According to GasBuddy.com, a website that tracks gasoline prices, average retail gas prices in Anchorage have risen 10.0 cents per gallon in the past week. According to the website, gas prices arounds this...