Diesel fuel prices dropped 6.6 cents to $3.828 a gallon, its fourth straight downturn and the biggest decline in more than a year and a half, the Department of Energy said Monday. Is this the beginning of a big dip in fleet fueling? If I was a fleet manager, I wouldn’t get to excited yet.
Oil prices fell sharply Wednesday along with diesel fuel prices (heating oil) as the euro dropped to an 11-month low and fears of European debt contagion sent jitters through the marketplace. Heating oil settled .0989 lower which diesel fuel prices mimic and crude 5.19 lower (94.95) after worries were reinforced that the European debt crisis could trigger a broader recession
Diesel fuel prices fell for a second straight week, declining 3.3 cents to $3.931 a gallon, while gasoline fell for a third week. The diesel fuel price downturn followed last week’s 4.6-cent drop that pulled trucking’s main fleet fuel below $4 a gallon after being above that level for one week. Gasoline’s national average price fell 1.7 cents to $3.29
It’s probably not surprising to you that I hear the question, what will diesel fuel prices do on a daily basis. After all, I am the President of a fuel management and fleet fueling consulting group. The goal is always to provide our clients with the most comprehensive information about diesel fuel prices and what we believe is going to
Up and down diesel fuel prices go, where they stop nobody knows.
While diesel fuel prices are always a hot topic, lately they have taken a back page to bigger more heated topics like the newly proposed hours of service rule, and the increasing tolls across the country. The price of fleet fueling will always be a topic and concern for fleets and fleet manager but both of these topics have received
Diesel fuel prices national average pump price jumped 8 cents to $3.801 a gallon, turning around five weeks of declines, while gas prices also increased, according to the Department of Energy.
Diesel fuel prices fell for a fifth straight week, dropping 2.8 cents to $3.721 a gallon, while gas prices also slipped for a fifth week, the Department of Energy said Tuesday. This has made fleet fueling prices a lot cheaper than they were at the start of September.
The national average diesel fuel prices kept falling during the week ended Dec. 17, dropping 4.6 cents to $3.945 a gallon, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. The latest weekly diesel fuel price is 11.7 cents above the same week last year. When you think of all the ups and downs the price of diesel fuel
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