Retail diesel fuel price (USD/gallon)
STO-REC-STAT01M2KJT2 National
5.58USD/gallon
United States · as of 23 Aug 2026
Retail diesel fuel price in United States (USD/gallon) averaged 5.58 USD/gallon as of 23 August 2026 (API).
- Publisher
- API
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The U.S. average price of diesel hit $5.58 per gallon last week, close to its all-time record.
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- APA
- American Petroleum Institute. (2026). Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/08/26/inside-the-global-squeeze-on-diesel. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T13
- MLA
- American Petroleum Institute. "Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel." 2026, https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/08/26/inside-the-global-squeeze-on-diesel. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T13.
- Chicago
- American Petroleum Institute. "Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel." 2026. https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/08/26/inside-the-global-squeeze-on-diesel. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T13.
- BibTeX
- @misc{api2026retaildt9t13, author = {{American Petroleum Institute}}, title = {Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T13}, note = {Original source: https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/08/26/inside-the-global-squeeze-on-diesel. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- American Petroleum Institute · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National Official
- Report
- Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 26 August 2026
- Locator
- Inside the Global Squeeze on Diesel
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T13