Fuel Prices Climbing
While both the federal Energy Information Administration and mileage-tracking software company ProMiles each report increases in the national U.S. average price for a gallon of diesel fuel on Monday compared to last week, the two indexes vary in size of the increase.ย
According to the federal EIA, the average cost for a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide on Monday, Oct. 15, was up nearly a penny.
However, ProMiles reports the U.S. average being up more than 4 cents.
In addition, while ProMiles reports prices in the West Coast without California being more than 4 cents lower, the EIA reports no change.
Following are the average prices by region as reported by the EIA for Monday:
- U.S. โ $3.394, up nine-tenths of a cent.
- East Coast โ $3.382, up 2.2 cents.
- New England โ $3.361, up 1.7 cents.
- Central Atlantic โ $3.544, up 1.3 cents.
- Lower Atlantic โ $3.272, up 2.9 cents.
- Midwest โ $3.351, no change.
- Gulf Coast โ $3.172, up three-tenths of a cent.
- Rocky Mountain โ $3.40, up 1 cent.
- West Coast โ $3.88, up 3.3 cents.
- West Coast less California โ $3.591, up 3.3 cents.
- California โ $4.109, down one-fifth of a cent.
