Diesel prices jump 8.2 cents to record $4.727
Diesel prices jumped again after falling slightly.
The Trucker Staff
7/7/2008
After a few weeks of small decreases, the average price of diesel rose $0.082 per gallon this week, according to the Energy Information Administration’s weekly retail on-highway diesel prices.
The price reflects a change of a whopping $1.878 per gallon increase from the same week last year.
Every region showed an increase in average prices this week with the Central Atlantic region topping the chart at $4.887 per gallon, followed closely by the West Coast region at $4.886 per gallon.
California rang in at $5.001 per gallon, up $0.073 a gallon from last week and $1.911 per gallon from one year ago.
The best place to buy a gallon of diesel today would be in the Midwest region where a gallon of diesel costs $4.654 an increase of $0.083 from last week.
For a three week comparison of prices per region see chart below.
|
Weekly Retail On-Highway Diesel Prices - Average All Types
(Dollars per gallon, including all taxes) |
|
Region |
06/23/08 |
06/30/08 |
07/07/08 |
Change from
week ago |
Change from
year ago |
| U.S. |
4.648 |
4.645 |
4.727 |
0.082 |
1.878 |
| East Coast |
4.711 |
4.704 |
4.789 |
0.085 |
1.936 |
| New England |
4.833 |
4.822 |
4.863 |
0.041 |
1.921 |
| Central Atlantic |
4.831 |
4.822 |
4.887 |
0.065 |
1.951 |
| Lower Atlantic |
4.648 |
4.643 |
4.741 |
0.098 |
1.931 |
| Midwest |
4.574 |
4.571 |
4.654 |
0.083 |
1.832 |
| Gulf Coast |
4.602 |
4.604 |
4.697 |
0.093 |
1.912 |
| Rocky Mountain |
4.652 |
4.638 |
4.672 |
0.034 |
1.717 |
| West Coast |
4.816 |
4.817 |
4.886 |
0.069 |
1.899 |
|
| California |
4.922 |
4.928 |
5.001 |
0.073 |
1.911 |