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Diesel is $6.23. A new record on a Monday. The gallon is $4.32.
AAA this morning. Highest diesel ever. Trump blamed Zelensky. Salalah did not sit.
The Rocket News · Economy · New YorkSeptember 14, 2026 · 4 min read
AAA put the U.S. diesel average at $6.2301 a gallon on Monday, a record, above Sunday’s $6.2040. Regular gasoline is $4.3163. The previous high was yesterday. The Economy desk files the workhorse fuel on the morning the markets open and the meeting in Oman does not.
Trump, leaving Doonbeg, blamed Zelensky. Stop hitting Russian refineries, he said. The shortage is Kyiv, not Iran. Brent has been above $108. Distillate inventories are already below the five-year range. Salalah was postponed overnight at Saudi request. The maps stay in the drawer.
Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel.
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Eight weeks from a midterm. A $5,000 dividend does not fill a tank. The Economy desk files $6.23 as the American number on a Monday the strait is still closed and the president is home.
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Oil slipped about 1 percent before New York.
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