Average Diesel Price Remains Unchanged at $2.116

img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/gas.gif" width=90 align=right>The national average price of diesel fuel held steady at $2.116 a gallon, remaining nearly 10 cents below the all-time record high price set in October, the Department of Energy said Monday.

On Oct. 25, the price of diesel fuel was $2.212, but has fallen 9.6 cents a gallon in the past five weeks to its lowest point since Oct. 11 when a gallon of trucking’s main fuel cost $2.092.

Trucking burns about 650 million gallons of diesel fuel each week. Currently, the average cost of diesel is 64 cents higher than it was at this time last year.

It was the fifth decline in six weeks and the lowest since $1.938 on Oct. 4.

Meanwhile, along the West Coast, diesel prices sank 0.9 cent per gallon to $2.233, DOE’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report. That decline was spearheaded by a 1.2-cent decline in California’s average diesel price to $2.287 a gallon.

Prices ticked higher in the Rocky Mountains, the Midwest and along the Gulf Coast, but by no more than the 0.5-cent increase seen in the latter region.

The East Coast, and specifically the Lower Atlantic region, saw modest declines of 0.2 and 0.4 cent a gallon respectively.

Each week, DOE surveys 350 diesel-filling stations to compile a national snapshot price.