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Champaign, Ill.-Area Gas Prices Take Huge Jump.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2001

By Debra Pressey, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 2--CHAMPAIGN, Ill.--The lucky drivers gassed up Tuesday. The rest were greeted with big price increases at the pumps this morning.

Gas prices rose about 20 cents a gallon overnight, pushing the price for regular unleaded gasoline to about $1.88 a gallon in Champaign-Urbana.

Collins Oil President Dorothy Collins, whose company operates three stations in Champaign-Urbana, said wholesale prices have been going up for weeks. She said she tried to keep a lid on prices as long as ...

 

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