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Why gas prices in suburbs are so high right now

May 13, 2013

It's hard to tell what's more painful these days, a poke in the eye or filling up your gas tank. We talk to experts who explain why northeast Illinois is in the gas-price doghouse and predict if we'll ever get out. Cook and the collar counties take a hit because the Clean Air Act requires areas with high smog levels (that's us) to use reformulated gasoline, which burns more cleanly.

Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130513/news/705139944/
 
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