The Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average retail diesel price rose for the 17th consecutive week, adding to its record run of increases and breaking through the
$3-per-gallon mark.
The latest price is $3.072 a gallon, up 9.9 cents.
That increase is the largest increase in the series of increases that goes back to early November. The largest increase had been the 9.7 cents reported last week. The largest one-week increase prior to this run was 15.3 cents, recorded after...