Gasoline prices are high and only going higher for the foreseeable future.
It's a pattern repeating itself throughout the country this spring, particularly in the Midwest. With national gasoline supplies already running about 5 percent behind last year's levels, a major weekend fire at the Tosco Refinery near St. Louis put a significant crimp in the Midwest's production capacity. Tosco usually produces 300,000 barrels of gas per day for the Chicago and St. Louis areas, but the fire more than halved its capacity. A sale of logging rights on a state forest Wednesday was voided after concerns were raised that a shift in the sale's location violated the Indiana Open Door Law. Bids to log in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest were scheduled to be opened at a building near Martinsville.