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Diesel is $6.20. A record on a Sunday. The gallon is $4.31.
AAA this morning. Two straits. A hull on fire at Qeshm. Salalah is tomorrow.
The Rocket News · Economy · New YorkSeptember 13, 2026 · 4 min read
AAA put the U.S. diesel average at $6.2040 a gallon on Sunday, a record, above Friday’s $6.16. Regular gasoline is $4.313. The previous diesel high was this morning. The Economy desk files the workhorse fuel on a Sunday the markets are shut and the pump is not.
A hull burned off Qeshm in Hormuz overnight. Bab al-Mandab is still in Houthi hands. The East-West pipeline is still shut. Brent settled Friday near $104. Monday Gulf ministers sit with Iran in Salalah. Bahrain skipped. Araghchi says the maps are a lane, not a reopening.
Diesel prices in the U.S. reached $6.2040 a gallon for the first time.
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Eight weeks from a midterm. A $5,000 dividend does not fill a tank. A president on a golf course in Clare does not move a hull. The Economy desk files $6.20 as the American number on a two-strait Sunday.
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As of 1:40 a.m. GMT, Brent was $115.36 and West Texas Intermediate was $101.12. The Houthis said they hit Saudi Arabia's biggest refinery. Saudi authorities did not confirm it. This is not a settlement. The photograph is June 22 in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Oil slipped about 1 percent before New York.
By 4:18 a.m. GMT, Brent was down $1 at $114.81 and West Texas Intermediate was down 88 cents at $100.88. This is not a settlement. The photograph is Feb. 9 in Syria, a man walking by the jacks.
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Oil eased from near a six-month high.
Before the New York open, Brent was down $1.49 at $115.23 and West Texas Intermediate was down $1.76 at $101.51. This is not a settlement. The photograph is a September file, not a pumpjack.