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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.
The Rocket News · Economy · New YorkSeptember 18, 2026 · 4 min read
AAA put the U.S. diesel average at $6.4476 a gallon on Friday — $6.45 to the cent — and wrote it as the highest recorded average the association has ever printed. Date: Sept. 18, 2026. Yesterday: $6.40. A week ago: $6.06. A year ago: $3.71. Regular gasoline is $4.47. The Economy desk files a record that is no longer news except the number.
Texas, Thursday: $5.96 statewide, a record there too. Dallas near $6.00. A hundred gallons: about $596, against $321 a year ago. Hormuz is still closed. The East-West is still shut. Distillate is still short. A $5,000 dividend does not fill a tank. A very good call from Irapuato does not either.
The highest recorded average price. Diesel. Sept. 18, 2026.
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Forty-seven days. The Economy desk files $6.45 as the American number on a Friday Sheinbaum called very good and the gallon did not come down.
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