Diesel Rises 0.7¢ to $2.228; Gas Dips 0.9¢ to $2.037
Diesel rose less than a penny for its third straight increase, gaining 0.7 cent to $2.228 per gallon, the Energy Department said Monday.
The increase left trucking’s main fuel $1.727 below the same week last year, according to DOE figures.
It followed last week’s 13.1-cent jump that was the biggest since Memorial Day of last year, when diesel jumped 22.6 cents to $4.723 a gallon on its run toward the $4.764 record set in mid-July.
Monday’s upturn was just the fifth increase in the past 37 weeks, but diesel has jumped 21.1 cents over the past three weeks.
Gasoline, meanwhile, reversed its recent upward trend in dipping 0.9 cent to $2.037 a gallon, DOE said following its weekly filling-station surveys.
The downturn was the fourth in the past 14 weeks and left gas $1.295 below the same week last year and $2.077 below the record $4.114 set last July 7.
Each week, DOE surveys about 350 diesel filling stations to compile a national snapshot average price.
