Diesel fuel rose 1.9 cents to $4.142 a gallon, its highest price since the record-setting summer of 2008, while gasoline fuel also rose. Diesel’s increase — the eighth straight and 10th in 11 weeks — leaves trucking’s main fuel 23.5 cents over than the same week a year ago. Diesel topped out at $4.124 last May, then the highest since
Diesel fuel prices continued its uphill climb, rising 2.9 cents to $4.123 a gallon, its seventh straight gain and the ninth in 10 weeks, while gasoline also rose. Gas fuel prices gained 3.6 cents to $3.829, also its seventh straight increase and the 11th in the past 12 weeks. Although diesel’s rate of increase slowed from the 4.3-cent and 9.1-cent
If Sunoco shutters the plant, it would be the third refinery closing in southeast Pennsylvania since September — representing 50% of the total refining capacity in the Northeast — said the agency, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy. Diesel fuel prices could be hurt the most by this happening.
Diesel fuel prices rose for the eighth week in the past nine, gaining 4.3 cents to $4.094, its highest price in 10 months, while gasoline jumped again. The diesel upturn followed last week’s 9.1-cent jump that put trucking’s main fuel over the $4 mark for the first time since November. Gasoline, meanwhile, jumped 7.2 cents to $3.793 a gallon, its
Diesel fuel prices jumped 9.1 cents to $4.051, the first time it has topped $4 since November and the highest price since May. Gasoline fuel prices soared 13 cents to $3.721 a gallon in the largest weekly increase in nearly a year. Diesel’s seventh increase in eight weeks left it 33.5 cents over the same week last year. Gasoline is
Well, we made it. Surviving 2011 wasn’t easy – the prolonged economic troubles, shifting global issues, rising food prices, etc…but look on the bright side, we made it through not one, but two threatened apocalypses! 2012 is bound to be a better year (and it only includes one Judgment Day from what I’ve heard).
It’s easy to take a seat on the sidelines and believe all of the things you read in the headlines about diesel fuel prices and gas prices going even higher. Of course those kinds of stories make news and help ratings. So, to answer the question in my own headline, ‘Are diesel fuel prices going up?’ – you betcha.
Yes, the DOE national weekly average for diesel fuel prices went down for the first time since November 2011. But don’t get too excited about your fuel management budget because they only went down $.001. That combined with a continued increase in gas prices does not look good for your tanks. Certainly your fleet fueling program will continue to feel
Future Fuel Saving Might Be Bleak Without Fuel Management
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