Diesel stops climb, drops 0.8 cents to $2.608

Before the steady increases began on May 11, the price was $2.185 a gallon, a difference of $0.495 per gallon compared to the price today.

The Trucker Staff

6/29/2009

After climbing for seven weeks, diesel prices dropped slightly. The weekly retail on-highway diesel price today is $2.608 per gallon, a drop of $0.008 a gallon from last week and down $2.037 per gallon from the same week one year ago, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Before the steady increases began on May 11, the price was $2.185 a gallon, a difference of $0.495 per gallon compared to the price today.

The only region not showing a decline this week is the Rocky Mountain region with an increase of $0.017 per gallon, to $2.631 a gallon.

California’s price is higher than all the regions at $2.785 per gallon, which reflected a drop of $0.004 per gallon.

The Central Atlantic region topped the charts today at $2.726 per gallon, which was $0.004 a gallon less than diesel cost last week.

The Gulf Coast was the least expensive place to buy a gallon of diesel where the average was $2.569 a gallon, which reflected a price that was $0.014 less than last week.

Meanwhile retail gasoline prices, which fell for the first time in nearly two months a week ago, continued their pullback as the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas fell overnight by four-tenths of a cent to $2.639, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.

Barb Kampbell of The Trucker staff can be reached for comment at barbkampbell@thetrucker.com.

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