National on-highway diesel prices were up 3 cents this week to $2.865 a gallon compared with the week of Feb. 9 ($2.835), reported the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Energy Department Tuesday.
EIA normally releases prices on Monday but government offices were closed for the President’s Day holiday.
Diesel prices were up in all the EIA’s reporting regions but one, the Rocky Mountain sector, which was down a sixth of a penny. Truckers in California saw prices go up 8.1 cents at the pump to $3.142 a gallon, followed by the West Coast region with an increase of 7.3 cents to $2.997 a gallon, and an increase of 6.1 cents in the West Coast Less California sector, where it was $2.817 compared with $2.756 the week prior.
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EIA normally releases prices on Monday but government offices were closed for the President’s Day holiday.
Diesel prices were up in all the EIA’s reporting regions but one, the Rocky Mountain sector, which was down a sixth of a penny. Truckers in California saw prices go up 8.1 cents at the pump to $3.142 a gallon, followed by the West Coast region with an increase of 7.3 cents to $2.997 a gallon, and an increase of 6.1 cents in the West Coast Less California sector, where it was $2.817 compared with $2.756 the week prior.
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