Diesel Prices Rise Around the Country

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Sometimes it's hard to tell whether fuel prices are going up only in your region or all across the board. An August 31 Land Line story is a reminder that you aren't the only one seeing diesel prices creeping up. According to the article "The U.S. average diesel price per gallon rose 1.5 cents from one week ago, according to a weekly federal report dated Monday, Aug. 31, to an average of $2.441 per gallon." This is the second week in a row we have seen rising diesel fuel prices.

When I was young I spent a couple months in an area called The Valley on the Texas-Mexico border. Gas prices, if I recall correctly, were a little over a buck a gallon. Diesel was lower, and across the Rio Grande you could fill 'er up for 50 cents a gallon.

Times change, and the one certainty is that nothing ever stays the same.

Here are some of the prices Land Line reported from around the country based on data from ProMiles.com:
U.S. – $2.344, up nine-tenths of a cent.
East Coast – $2.48, up nine-tenths of a cent.
New England – $2.612, up seven-tenths of a cent.
Central Atlantic – $2.673, up one-tenth of a cent.
Lower Atlantic – $2.359, up 1.6 cents.
Midwest – $2.271, up 2.2 cents.
Gulf Coast – $2.175, down 3.7 cents.
Rocky Mountain – $2.33, up one cent.
West Coast – $2.796, up a 4.3 cents.
West Coast without California – $2.493, up 2.3 cents.
California – $3.231, up 4.1 cents.

You can read the full story here:
https://landline.media/average-retail-diesel-prices-rise-for-all-regions/