The benchmark Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration weekly average retail diesel price rose for the 13th week in a row for the price posted Monday, up 2.2 cents a gallon to $2.738.
It is now up 36.6 cents from the level of Nov. 2, the last week that the price posted a decline.
The increase is now closing in on the territory of the largest increases in the history of the series that goes back to 1994. There were three comparable or greater increases to what is occurring now.
==June...