Price today
$6.29
per gallon · week of Sep 14, 2026
The highest point anywhere in the five-year window. Diesel climbed from about $4.58 in early July 2026 to $6.29 now — up more than 35% in about ten weeks.US retail diesel · dollars per gallon · five-year window
Diesel spent 2023 through 2025 grinding back toward the $3.50–$3.80 range. Then in March 2026 the price shot up in a matter of weeks — clearing the 2022 war-shock peak and climbing into new territory by September.
Monthly path reconstructed from EIA's weekly/monthly diesel price series (via FRED)
$6.29
per gallon · week of Sep 14, 2026
The highest point anywhere in the five-year window. Diesel climbed from about $4.58 in early July 2026 to $6.29 now — up more than 35% in about ten weeks.+90%
Oct 2021 → Sep 2026
Diesel started the window near $3.30. Nothing in between has undone that climb — the 2023–25 slide only took prices back to the $3.50–$3.80 range.$5.81
week of June 20, 2022
The EIA's all-time weekly high before 2026, set after Russia's invasion of Ukraine tightened US distillate supply and pulled exports toward Europe.$3.30
October 2021
The cheapest reading on the chart. Diesel has only briefly revisited this zone since — low $3.50s in early 2026, just before the March jump.+45%
Feb → Mar 2026
From about $3.72 in February to $5.40 by the end of March — a move packed into a few weeks, versus the several months the 2022 spike took to cover similar ground.−15%
Apr → Jul 2026
Prices eased back from around $5.40 to a low of $4.58 in early July, before turning sharply higher again through August and September.$3.50–$3.80
most of 2024–2025
Roughly two years of unusually narrow trading, with both 2024 and 2025 averaging in this band. It is the flattest passage on the chart, and it ended abruptly in March 2026.+8%
above the June 2022 peak ($5.81)
Today's price has cleared the war-shock high of 2022, so this is uncharted territory for the five-year series rather than a retest.