Diesel Drops 2.1¢ to $2.601 in Fourth Straight Decline
The national average price of diesel fuel fell for a fourth straight week, dropping 2.1 cents to $2.601 a gallon, the Energy Department said Monday.
Trucking’s main fuel has now fallen 7.3 cents in the past month, and the latest price left it $1.358 below the same week last year, DOE said.
Gasoline’s national average, meanwhile, plunged more than a nickel, falling 5.3 cents to $2.499 a gallon, DOE said following its weekly survey of filling stations.
That marked gasoline’s seventh straight downturn, over which time it has declined 14.8 cents. The downturn left gasoline $1.133 below the same week last year, according to DOE records.
Crude oil rose 83 cents Monday to close on the New York Mercantile Exchange at just under $67 a barrel, near a one-month low, Bloomberg reported.
Each week, DOE surveys about 350 diesel filling stations to compile a national snapshot average price.
