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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
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.
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Diesel is $6.49. AAA dated a new record today.
Saturday: $6.4866. Yesterday’s $6.45 was already the high. Regular $4.48. A year ago: $3.71.
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Diesel is $6.45. The highest AAA has ever printed. The gallon is $4.47.
Friday morning. Up a nickel from $6.40. Forty-seven days. A record on the record.
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Diesel is $6.40. Another record on a Thursday. The gallon is $4.44.
AAA this morning. Up nine cents from $6.31. Forty-eight days. The hangar did not fill a tank.
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