US diesel price this week
The US figure, week by week, with the news behind it.
Updated
On 26 Oct 2026, the US average retail diesel price was 6.352 USD/gal. That is up 1.2% on the previous reading, 6.276 USD/gal for 19 Oct 2026. Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED).
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What this price is
This is the US average retail price of on-highway diesel, in dollars per gallon including taxes, from the Energy Information Administration's weekly survey of fuel stations, as published on FRED.
Trucking firms, delivery fleets, farms and contractors pay it directly, and freight rates often carry a fuel surcharge tied to it. Each weekly figure below is one survey reading.
Week by week
| Week of | Price | On the week before |
|---|---|---|
| 6.352 USD/gal | up 1.2% | |
| 6.276 USD/gal | up 1.6% | |
| 6.179 USD/gal | down 0.3% | |
| 6.199 USD/gal | down 2.9% | |
| 6.382 USD/gal | down 2.3% | |
| 6.529 USD/gal | up 3.9% | |
| 6.285 USD/gal | up 5.3% | |
| 5.967 USD/gal | up 6.6% |
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED). One reading per week, as published.
The latest readings
- : 6.352 USD/gal
- : 6.276 USD/gal
- : 6.179 USD/gal
- : 6.199 USD/gal
- : 6.382 USD/gal
- : 6.529 USD/gal
- : 6.285 USD/gal
- : 5.967 USD/gal
- : 5.599 USD/gal
- : 5.652 USD/gal
The news moving it
3 indexed analyses name this cost in the US; newest first, each with its chain from the event to a business and its source.
- Saudi Arabia shut down the East-West pipeline after it was damaged by drones launched from Iraq, leading to a rise in oil prices due to concerns over supply disruption. US
- Oil prices rose to a six-week high following fresh attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities and escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, which included military strikes on each other's vessels. US
- The U.S. military conducted strikes against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, prompting retaliatory attacks from Iran, which led to a rise in oil prices due to concerns over disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. US
How this analysis was produced
- Data sources
- US diesel price this week: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED); Atri engine: indexed analyses
- What the AI did
- No AI wrote this page. It is assembled automatically from the stored readings of a published price series and the indexed analyses (each written by an AI model, with its own disclosure).
- Checked automatically
- every figure is a stored reading, quoted with its date and publisher; only indexed analyses are listed.
- What people did
- People chose the series and wrote the explanation of what it measures. No person reviews this page before its figures change.
- Data as of
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