Fuel Prices Keep Falling

Diesel fuel prices fell for the 11th straight week, dropping 5.1 cents to $3.678 a gallon, a 16-month low, while gasoline dropped almost a dime, the Department of Energy said Monday.

Gas prices fell 9.6 cents — its biggest decline in more than a year — to $3.437, its lowest price in five months, DOE said following its weekly survey of filling stations.

The diesel fuel prices downturn left trucking’s main fuel 21 cents below the same week last year, while gas prices were 13.7 cents under a year ago.

Diesel fuels national average pump price has plunged 47 cents in the past 11 weeks, while gasoline has plummeted 50.4 cents in 12 straight declines.

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