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Gas is down another 2 cents per gallon in Crystal Lake, IL this week! Okay, two cents is not a whole lot but the downward trend is the thing that matters here. 
Here's a first for me. I get to reuse my photo from last week since the price of gas is exactly the same as it was last Thursday! That's not to say nothing had happened with the price of gas in the last week. Its been as high as $4.05 during that time but its slipped back down and for that, I am glad.
The downward trends continues! Gas at "my" local gas station in Crystal Lake, IL is 4 cents per gallon cheaper this week than last. Now this is the gas station that I photograph each week and use as my standard to measure the price of gas in our town. And usually all of the plain old gas stations along the main drag here are within a couple of pennies of each other. Not this week! The prices were all over the place with $3.89 being the low and prices ranging all the way up to $4.09. In the neighboring town of Algonquin, just to the south of us where our Costco is located, prices were even more erratic. $3.91 was the low there but one station was $4.15 per gallon!
Well, gas is down another 4 cents per gallon this week in Crystal Lake, IL! I am sure hoping this downward trend continues for a good while to come! 
Woohoo! Gas is below $4.00 per gallon in Crystal Lake, IL! Yes, its down 12 cents from last week's price of $4.09 per gallon. Now, I am aware that I could have bought gas for below $4.00 per gallon the last couple of weeks at Sam's Club or Costco. And the truth of the matter is that I have done exactly that. But for the sake of comparing gas prices in various locations around the world is doesn't seem to me to be a valid comparison if I quote the price at places that require a (paid) membership card for the privilege of buying their gas when that option is not available in other locations or even to everyone in this locale. Besides, they don't post their prices on nice big photogenic signs out by the road! So this is the price you'd pay if you pulled up to the pump at the average gas station in Crystal Lake, IL. 
The downward trend continues! Last week, gas in Crystal Lake, IL was $4.21 per gallon and this week it is $4.09. That is a drop in price of 12 cents per gallon! Yay! I am hoping this downward movement in gas prices continues for a while. That coupled with the fact that Andy is working from home one day per week and thereby saving on the gas necessary for his 80 mile round trip commute really does make a difference.
Here's the price of gas today in Crystal Lake, IL. Its up two cents per gallon from last Thursday when it was $4.19 but actually it shot up to $4.25 per gallon during the week before settling at $4.21. I'm hoping that downward trend continues!
Yes, gas is down 2 cents per gallon in Crystal Lake, IL this week. BUT between last Thursday and today, the price shot up to $4.35 per gallon before coming back down to this. Dare I pray that we are on any sustained downward trend? With Andy driving 80 miles a day to work and back, I sure am praying we are! And I am thanking God for the one day per week that Andy can work from home...and that is not only because of the price of gas.
Well, here it is...the price of gas in Crystal Lake, IL for today. Its up a whopping 8 cents per gallon this week! Makes me even more thankful to have Andy working from home one day a week.
I had tea with Kim this morning, always a treat, and made a stop at the library before heading home via the gas station. Here's what I found for the price of gas in Crystal Lake, IL today. Its down one cent which I know is better than up but still I wish it was better news. But it is more or less stable these last couple of weeks and the fact that it is not steeply climbing at the moment is something to be thankful for.
I didn't do my regular gas posting last Thursday because we were on vacation but when we passed by the pumps late Saturday on our way to the cottage, the price was $4.15 per gallon for regular unleaded. So we are actually down by one penny from the price a few days ago. Still a sickeningly high price but "a penny saved is a penny earned," right? And it is even higher for our neighbors to the north in Canada as well as those across the pond in Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK. Hey, its higher for our friends in California than we are paying. So maybe its a downright bargain, huh!?
Here's the price of gas in Crystal Lake, IL yesterday. Its up 2 cents from last week which was our recent "low" but it had been up to $4.15 per gallon again during the week and fallen back to $4.11. We're headed off to northern Wisconsin for a week's vacation starting tomorrow. It will be interesting to see gas prices up that way. I won't have internet access during the week but my plan is to catch some prices at the pump while we're away so I can share them after we get back. Meanwhile, I'm heading over to Rebecca's to check on what others are paying for their gas.
I swung by the gas station on the way home from stopping by Kim's house last night and here's the latest in gas prices for Crystal Lake, IL. I don't have to whine (well, at least not quite as much) since the price dropped 6 cents per gallon from last week. Think there's any coincidence with it being right after Memorial Day? 
