Diesel Rises 2¢ to $2.849
The average retail price of U.S. diesel fuel rose 2 cents to $2.849 a gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday.
The increase was the third in four weeks, following last week’s 0.6 cent dip, and the price of trucking’s main fuel is now 6.9 cents below the same week last year.
The price is just 2.8 cents off the year’s high of $2.877, set on April 16, and is 43.6 cents higher than the year’s low price of $2.413, set on Jan. 29.
Gasoline, meanwhile, rose 2.2 cents $2.981, its first increase in seven weeks following six declines from the record high of $3.218 set in late May.
Gas is 0.8 cent over the same week last year.
Each week, DOE surveys about 350 diesel filling stations to compile a national snapshot average price.
