Diesel Monitor
Data Updated Weekly

US diesel prices, updated every week.

Updated on June 9, 2026

This Week
USD per Gallon
$0.00
-2.62% vs. Previous Week
Last 12 Months
vs. Last Year
+0.0%
$3.47/gal a year ago
Last 25 Years
vs. Historical Median
+0.0%
25Y Median: $2.99/gal

25 Years of US Diesel

National average price per gallon. Colored bands show historical regimes. Pins mark the 5 largest shocks.

Calm PeriodsElevated PeriodsExtreme PeriodsTop 5 Shocks

The Last Time We Saw This

The historical week most similar to the current moment, considering price, volatility and momentum.

September 1, 2022 to October 3, 2022
Similarity: 83%
At the Start
$5.12/gal
At the Trough
$4.84/gal
-5.5%

Price, volatility and momentum all line up between this week and the current moment.

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.

WTI ($/bbl)Diesel ($/gal)
Crude leads diesel by about 10 days with 88.1% correlation.

How the Pipeline Works

Open-source workflow that fetches, transforms and publishes the data every Tuesday.

1

Ingestion

EIAYahoo Finance

Pulls weekly retail diesel prices from the EIA and WTI futures from Yahoo Finance.

2

Processing

PythonApache Spark

PySpark cleans and joins the series, then computes KPIs, regimes and the WTI to diesel correlation.

3

Storage

Delta Lake

Bronze, silver and gold layers in Delta Lake version every snapshot for reproducibility.

4

Orchestration

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions runs the whole job every Tuesday and publishes the JSON consumed by this page.