In today’s Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update, the US EIA reported regular unleaded fuel prices across the US dropped for the 13th consecutive week, this time by $0.081 per gallon to $3.356. Fuel prices haven’t been this low since before January 9, 2012. Unleaded regular fuel prices are now $0.223 per gallon lower than one year ago.
The Midwest and West Coast regions both saw a weekly drop of $0.108 per gallon, the biggest decrease of all the regions in the US. In the West Coast region, the average regular unleaded fuel price is now $0.47 per gallon less than one month ago.
Regular unleaded fuel price averages are lower than last year in every region except in the Rocky Mountain region, where fuel prices are $0.064 per gallon higher than last year.
Diesel prices dropped $0.03 per gallon, which is $0.202 per gallon lower than this time last year.