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The national average price for on-highway diesel fuel has dropped another nickel. The national average on Monday, June 18, was $3.729 per gallon according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Diesel prices have come down 36 cents during the past seven weeks, and are currently averaging 22 cents lower than a year ago.
In California, diesel was down a dime for the week to $3.996. Regionally, all of the jurisdictions the EIA tracks are now averaging below the $4 mark.
Following is a roundup of average prices by region as posted Monday by the EIA:
U.S. – $3.729, down 5.2 cents
East Coast – $3.766, down 5.2 cents
New England – $3.923, down 5.1 cents
Central Atlantic – $3.868, down 4.1 cents
Lower Atlantic – $3.660, down 6.1 cents
Midwest – $3.655, down 4.1 cents
Gulf Coast – $3.654, down 4.4 cents
Rocky Mountain – $3.832, down 4.1 cents
West Coast – $3.899, down 9.2 cents
West Coast less California – $3.820, down 8.2 cents
California – $3.966, down 10.0 cents
The daily average for the continental U.S., as tracked by ProMiles, was at $3.732 on Monday, down nearly half-a-cent over the weekend and about 3 cents for the week.
Light sweet crude oil, the type associated with domestic diesel production, was trading at just over $83 a barrel on Monday, down about $1 over the weekend. European crude oil, known as Brent crude, was down about $2 a barrel on Monday to $95.81. Analysts said the drop was due to public concerns about the election in Greece and a new economic outlook in Spain.
just filled her up yesterday for 3.67 a gallon.....not 3 miles down the road another station had it for 3.55! wooohooo! first time diesel has been below regular unleaded for years!!!!!
[I] Analysts said the drop was due to public concerns about the election in Greece and a new economic outlook in Spain.
Analysts will NOT say this happens every four years. It's like leap year.......It will continue to drop as we approach Nov. 4 unless a major hurricane causes severe damage.
Think about it...... if those wildfires were happening on a non-election year, the price of crude would be going up because, some how, the wells would be effected by the fires. Colorado has over 35,000 operating oil and gas wells, and companies are drilling thousands of new ones each year.
I saw 3.39 today. I got excited for a second, then quickly became depressed when I remembered back to my younger days when I would put $3 of gas in my truck to go cruising around on a Friday night.