Chicago gas prices are inching toward $6 a gallon

How did prices get so high and what can the government do to bring them down?

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Gasoline station attendants checks gas price and pumps gasoline in Chicago, on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Nam Y. Huh / AP File photo
Gas
Gasoline station attendants checks gas price and pumps gasoline in Chicago, on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Nam Y. Huh / AP File photo

Chicago gas prices are inching toward $6 a gallon

How did prices get so high and what can the government do to bring them down?

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As the national average of gas prices reach a new record high, Illinois is now one of seven states where regular unleaded gas costs more than $5 a gallon. In Chicago, prices are inching toward $6 a gallon.

Reset talks with an energy reporter who’s keeping an eye on prices at the pump.

GUEST: Steve Daniels, senior reporter for Crain’s Chicago Business