'I think at this point, you know if anything else goes wrong, I think we're going to be knocking on the door of $6.00 a gallon.'
The average for a gallon of gas in Chicago is more than $6.00. That's a dollar more than the national average which is just under $5.00.Call it a story born out of frustration. If we're going to be paying hand over fist every time we fuel up, we wanted a refresher on where our hard earned money goes in every gallon. It may be tempting to give your gas station owner a dirty look, but don't.Cyrian Chandy owns a BP in Skokie and these prices aren't helping his bottom line.
Let's say you're filling up in Chicago paying $6.00 a gallon. Eight cents of that goes to the city. Six cents goes to Cook County, and 39 cents per gallon goes to the state of Illinois. That's just in gas taxes alone. "The irony is that they're not doing anything different, right. The state's taking in a lot more revenue when it comes to gasoline," De Haan said.
"I don't want to say it, and I certainly don't want to see it, but I think at this point, you know if anything else goes wrong, I think we're going to be knocking on the door of $6.00 a gallon," De Haan said.
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