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Diesel is $6.51. AAA dated another record today.

Sunday. $6.5050. Yesterday $6.49 was already the high. Regular still $4.48.

The Rocket News · Economy · New YorkSeptember 20, 2026 · 4 min read

A U.S. diesel pump reading $6.505 a gallon, green nozzle, in color. No figures in the frame.

AAA put the U.S. diesel average at $6.5050 a gallon on Sunday — $6.51 to the cent — and wrote it as the highest recorded average the association has ever printed. Date: Sept. 20, 2026. Yesterday: $6.4866. A week ago: $6.20. A year ago: $3.70. Regular gasoline is $4.4761, unchanged to the penny. The Economy desk files a record that moved overnight, again.

Moscow’s refinery burned this morning. Hormuz is still a war. Distillate is still short. A $5,000 dividend does not fill a tank. Xi is due at the White House on Wednesday. The gallon did not wait for him.

The highest recorded average price. Diesel. Sept. 20, 2026.

The Economy desk files $6.51 as the American number on a Sunday the president spent on an arch, and the pump did not come down.

Wire and further reading: gasprices.aaa.com

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