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Originally Posted by Flash
Thanks for confirming my findings from the weekend where it was $2.09 at Gurnee, IL but 10 miles down the road past North Chicago, IL it was $2.24. Insane. I also discovered that some Milwaukee residents drive down to Chicago and fill up with the "un-reformulated" gas which they say gets them about 7-8 mpg more from their Prius than the gas around Milwaukee. Maybe that is the big difference in prices - some have winter gas and some have summer gas and others have a mix somehow.
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Oh yeah, definitely insane. My commute is about 20 miles north across suburban Chicagoland, and prices along the way vary so much! Sometimes it's as much as $.22, top to bottom price (other times the gap is as narrow as $.10 or $.12).
I have no idea whether each station has a different mix or if something else is causing it. I would have guessed that Cook County taxes are higher than the outer county taxes... but I don't know for sure. That's not reflected in the posted price anyway, I wouldn't think.