As the increasingly bearish oil market took a breather Monday, with futures prices rising, the always lagging benchmark retail diesel price declined again.
The weekly Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average retail diesel price fell 7 cents a gallon to $3.555. It’s the ninth consecutive week that the price used for most fuel surcharges fell, matching another streak of that duration between April and June.
It also marked the biggest one-week decline in the diesel price used...