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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.

The Rocket News · Economy · New YorkSeptember 19, 2026 · 4 min read

A U.S. diesel pump, green nozzle in the holster, digital price near $6.49, in color. No figures in the frame.

AAA put the U.S. diesel average at $6.4866 a gallon on Saturday — $6.49 to the cent — and wrote it as the highest recorded average the association has ever printed. Date on the board: Sept. 19, 2026. Yesterday: $6.4476, which had been the record for one day. A week ago: $6.16. A year ago: $3.71. Regular gasoline is $4.4759. The Economy desk files a high that did not hold the weekend.

Hormuz is still closed. Distillate is still short. A hundred gallons: about $649, against $371 a year ago. Trump signed Lindsey Graham’s Russia bill Friday night and blamed Ukraine for the American gallon. 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. 19, 2026.

Forty-six days. The Economy desk files Saturday as it is: $6.49, a record that lasted the night and then moved, and a midterm that will smell like diesel.

Wire and further reading: gasprices.aaa.com

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