Diesel Drops 3.7¢ to $3.894 in Third Decline
Editor’s note: DOE had originally reported this week’s gasoline price at $3.274 per gallon, a 1.6-cent decline.
Diesel’s national average pump price fell 3.7 cents to $3.894 a gallon, its third straight downturn, while gasoline also declined, the Department of Energy said Monday.
Gasoline fell 0.4 cent to $3.286 a gallon for a fourth straight drop, DOE said following its weekly survey of filling stations.
Diesel has dropped 11.6 cents in the past three weeks, though it rose 12.3 cents in two weekly increases just prior to that.
Trucking’s main fuel is now 66.3 cents higher than the same week last year, while gasoline is 30.6 cents over a year ago, according to DOE records.
Oil prices fell $1.64 Monday to $97.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest in more than two weeks.
Each week, DOE surveys about 350 diesel filling stations to compile a national snapshot average price.
