Danville mayor suspicious about local gas prices

DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Danville Mayor Scott Eisenhauer believes something isn't quite right about gasoline prices in his city so he's tracking them. Very closely.

Eisenhauer told The News-Gazette in Champaign (http://bit.ly/WRUdxd ) that he's concerned gas prices in the city on the Indiana state line are consistently higher than others in the area such as Champaign. And he worries that price fixing may be involved.

Eisenhauer is tracking prices for 90 days to see what he finds. He hopes to get the Illinois Attorney General's office to take a look.

Attorney General spokesman Scott Mulford says price fixing is hard to prove and very rarely successfully prosecuted.

IllinoisGasPrices.com reported prices from $2.73 to $3.89 a gallon in Danville on Thursday. Prices in other eastern Illinois towns ranged from $3.59 to $3.89.

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Information from: The News-Gazette, http://www.news-gazette.com