Diesel Dips 1.3¢ to $3.857; Gas Slips 2.9¢
Diesel’s national average price dipped 1.3 cents to $3.857 a gallon, the second straight decline and the lowest price in four months, the Department of Energy reported.
Gasoline, meanwhile, fell 2.9 cents to $3.265, its eighth downturn in nine weeks and the lowest price this year, DOE said.
Trucking’s main fuel is 15.3 cents below the same week last year, DOE said Nov. 4 after its weekly survey of filling stations.
Gas is 22.7 cents below the same week a year ago, and its price has dropped 34.3 cents in the past two months.
It is at its lowest level since it was $3.257 late December, according to DOE records.
Diesel has not increased at the pump in nine weeks, with the price holding in two of those weeks at the same level as the previous week. It has slid 12.4 cents in the past two months and is at its lowest level since it was $3.828 a gallon on July 8.
Each week, DOE surveys about 400 diesel filling stations and 800 gasoline stations to compile national average prices.
