{"id":97658,"date":"2018-01-18T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=97658"},"modified":"2018-01-18T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:30:04","slug":"illinois-refinery-issue-could-up-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/18\/illinois-refinery-issue-could-up-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois refinery issue could up gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A refinery outage reported Wednesday at a facility in Illinois may cause gasoline prices to rise in much of the Great Lakes area as soon as today.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) reported a &#8220;flaring event&#8221; at a refinery in Roxana, Illinois, earlier Wednesday morning. The disclosure led wholesale gasoline prices to jump nearly 10 cents per gallon, but due to the &#8220;price cycling&#8221; behavior that takes place in the region in which stations constantly undercut each other, prices may rise much more than that as stations not only pass along the higher wholesale price, but also restore their depleted margin that was sacrificed by the undercutting.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and areas of Kentucky, Wisconsin, and West Virginia may see gas prices spike today or Friday to $2.65-$2.79 per gallon as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information A refinery outage reported Wednesday at a facility in Illinois may cause gasoline prices to rise in much of the Great Lakes area as soon as today. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) reported a &#8220;flaring event&#8221; at a refinery in Roxana, Illinois, earlier Wednesday morning. The disclosure led wholesale gasoline prices to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 23:57:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}