With global oil markets having gotten a boost in futures markets the past two trading days from Mideast tensions that are on the verge of actual shooting, the benchmark price used for most diesel surcharges declined on the back of earlier weakness.
The average weekly retail diesel price published by the Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration, used as the basis for most fuel surcharges, fell 5.1 cents a gallon to $3.704. It marked the fifth straight weekly decline.
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