Retail diesel prices measured by the Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average retail price now have moved higher for three consecutive weeks, but it doesn’t appear to be on the back of higher consumption.
The weekly DOE/EIA diesel price, used as the basis for most fuel surcharges, climbed 4.4 cents a gallon Monday to $3.813. Three weeks of increases followed nine weeks of declines.
And while it was not a factor in the retail prices surveyed by the EIA to produce its closely...