Diesel Drops for Third Week, Dipping 1.9¢ to $2.938 a Gallon
Diesel and gasoline both fell for a third straight week, with diesel dipping 1.9 cents to $2.938 a gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday.
Diesel’s three declines totaled 5.3 cents and followed three weeks of increases that had totaled 9.2 cents.
Monday’s price left trucking’s main fuel 26.4 cents higher than the same week last year, DOE said following its weekly survey of filling stations.
Gasoline, meanwhile, fell 2.2 cents to $2.682 a gallon, also its third straight decline.
Gas had dropped 10.1 cents in the past three weeks and Monday’s price left it 6.9 cents over the same week a year ago.
Oil prices rose to more than $75 a barrel late last week on the New York Mercantile Exchange, following several weeks of declines. The price slipped back below that level on Monday, Bloomberg reported.
Each week, DOE surveys about 350 diesel filling stations to compile a national snapshot average price.
