US diesel prices, updated every week.
Updated on May 1, 2026
25 Years of US Diesel
National average price per gallon. Colored bands show historical regimes. Pins mark the 5 largest shocks.
The Last Time We Saw This
The historical week most similar to the current moment, considering price, volatility and momentum.
Peak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the global diesel market in supply panic. Prices eased over the following months as high interest rates cooled demand and the global flow rerouted, with Asia absorbing Russian diesel.
Diesel Follows Crude With a Few Days' Lag
When crude (WTI) prices move, diesel at the pump reacts in the following days. Both series side by side, 2000 to today.
How the Pipeline Works
Open-source workflow that fetches, transforms and publishes the data every Tuesday.
Ingestion
Pulls weekly retail diesel prices from the EIA and WTI futures from Yahoo Finance.
Processing
PySpark cleans and joins the series, then computes KPIs, regimes and the WTI to diesel correlation.
Storage
Bronze, silver and gold layers in Delta Lake version every snapshot for reproducibility.
Orchestration
GitHub Actions runs the whole job every Tuesday and publishes the JSON consumed by this page.