April 1, 2024 4:41 PM, EDT

Diesel Price Falls Back Below $4 a Gallon at $3.996

3.8¢ Decrease Comes After Two Consecutive Gains

A gas tank driver checks his cellphone while monitoring the fueling of underground tanks from his tanker truck in Jackson, Miss. (Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press)

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The national average diesel price dipped back below $4 a gallon after a 3.8-cent decrease to $3.996, according to Energy Information Administration data released April 1.

Highlights

Diesel’s average price had reached $4.034 a gallon after gaining 3 cents over the previous two weeks.
A gallon of trucking’s main fuel now costs 10.9 cents less on average than it did at this time in 2023.
Diesel’s price went down in all 10 regions in EIA’s weekly survey, ranging from a high of 5.2 cents in the Lower Atlantic to a low of 1.5 cents in the West Coast region.
Gasoline slipped six-tenths of a cent to settle at $3.517 a gallon. That's 2 cents more than at this time a year ago.