Gas prices

Illinois is facing a diesel-fuel price disaster, according to Gov. JB Pritzker. He’s directed state agencies not to penalize the use of tax-exempt red-dyed diesel on roads. While he calls it a cost-saving measure, the leader of the Illinois Fuel and Retail Association says more clarity is needed.

Travelers to Bloomington's Central Illinois Regional Airport may pass through its gates dozens of times without realizing how nearby economic changes — like those over at Normal's Rivian plant — can lead to windfalls at the airport.

Conflicts in Iran and Russia are causing diesel prices to spike globally. That’s especially hurting U.S. farmers as they head into harvest season, the most fuel intensive period of the agricultural year.

As a three-day holiday weekend and corresponding increased travel approaches, drivers could be in store for a pricey Labor Day at the gas pump.

Rising gas prices caused by the U.S. war with Iran have caused a significant bump in the national inflation rate. A number of stopgap policy proposals have come up to ease the pain at the pump. It’s questionable whether those ideas really matter.

Buying in bulk has saved countywide governments and school districts money as prices rose across the country.

High gas prices are having ripple effects throughout the economy. Trucking, flying and farming are all trying to ride out the current price spikes.

WGLT interviewed a dozen Central Illinois residents about how gas prices are impacting their lives — including teen drivers, young professionals, longtime food-delivery drivers and commuters.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the U.S. war with Iran has sent energy prices way up. Something similar happened back in 1973 during the OPEC oil embargo. Find out more in this episode of McHistory.

“They’re going to try to give us anything to look at other than the gas approaching $5 a gallon,” U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen said during a visit to Normal this week.